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Or is today really National Delurking Day? I was fantasizing about reading Jay last night and he announced that today is National Delurking Day, as proclaimed by Rude Cactus (I've got to get him back on my Google Reader - the guy is brilliant). Anyway, you know me - quite the geek - I needed to do a little research to make sure I was giving proper credit for the occasion.
You know that saying, "Ignorance is bliss?" Yeah ... well ... I should have never started poking around on this one. I am far more confused now than I was before.
You see, there seem to be those who decide to have a delurking day once a month (kind of like a blog feature). I foundtoo many bloggers to link to handfulls of bloggers who seem to run the delurking day feature on their blogs quite regularly trying to boost those comment numbers. I'm guessing there is a reason for this - maybe advertising $$? Who knows ... anyway ...
I then found this other group of blogging women consisting of Schmutzie, Sweetney and Jen and Tonic (I confess, I made only brief visits to these blogs - I've not read any of them in depth - but they do look promising and I wanted to make sure I gave out props where props were due).
Now, where was I? Oh yes! This other group of women were frustrated with the drop in comments on their blogs and decided to make some buttons and celebrate The Great Mofo Delurk. They advertised it as:
You know that saying, "Ignorance is bliss?" Yeah ... well ... I should have never started poking around on this one. I am far more confused now than I was before.
You see, there seem to be those who decide to have a delurking day once a month (kind of like a blog feature). I found
I then found this other group of blogging women consisting of Schmutzie, Sweetney and Jen and Tonic (I confess, I made only brief visits to these blogs - I've not read any of them in depth - but they do look promising and I wanted to make sure I gave out props where props were due).Now, where was I? Oh yes! This other group of women were frustrated with the drop in comments on their blogs and decided to make some buttons and celebrate The Great Mofo Delurk. They advertised it as:
It is time that all you lurking mofos delurked, and we have given you six days to prepare yourselves (and ourselves, ahem). On October 3rd, delurk you mofos! Say hello! Share who you are! Put an end to your m*th*rf*ck*ng lurking and leave a comment!
Nothing like a gentle nudge to get your readers to comment, right?? Well, I can tell you that it worked for Schmutzie - she generated 241 comments that day! But ... they only did this one time (no repeat in 2008). I'm still leaning toward Rude Cactus as the founder ... but wait ...
A little more research finds that there is a celebrated Delurking Week - traditionally celebrated the first full week of January (meaning I missed it). It looks like this celebration may have been started by Paper Napkin in 2005. Yes, 2005!!
But ... but ... a glimpse into Rude Cactus' archives finds that he participated in that first Delurking Day in 2005 as well. So? Who gets credit? I don't know - it's Monday and all of this research made my head hurt! All I can tell you is that I like this delurking icon the best:
If you are a lurker here, please accept this invitation to expose yourself - I do it every Thursday! EDIT - Everyone is welcome to expose themselves today - even those of you who are regular flashers! Thank you Ro, forbeing a pain in my ass reminding me of the importance of taking care of my loyal commentors as well *wink* If y'all promise to play nice, I'll even change my comments settings to allow anyone and everyone who wants to comment the opportunity. Take a chance - say "Hello" - I promise not to bite unless you give me explicit permission to do so!
Oh, and when you are done submitting that comment, go visit Jay over at Cynical Bastard and wish him a happy blogiversary/blog birthday. He turned THREE today (doesn't he look good for his age?)!
A little more research finds that there is a celebrated Delurking Week - traditionally celebrated the first full week of January (meaning I missed it). It looks like this celebration may have been started by Paper Napkin in 2005. Yes, 2005!!
But ... but ... a glimpse into Rude Cactus' archives finds that he participated in that first Delurking Day in 2005 as well. So? Who gets credit? I don't know - it's Monday and all of this research made my head hurt! All I can tell you is that I like this delurking icon the best:
If you are a lurker here, please accept this invitation to expose yourself - I do it every Thursday! EDIT - Everyone is welcome to expose themselves today - even those of you who are regular flashers! Thank you Ro, for
Oh, and when you are done submitting that comment, go visit Jay over at Cynical Bastard and wish him a happy blogiversary/blog birthday. He turned THREE today (doesn't he look good for his age?)!
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