Who’s Your Daddy?

Update: over 600 Bloggers recorded.

I am making a family tree of the blogosphere.

Bloggers, please leave a comment noting:

  1. your blogfather, or blogmother, as the case may be. Just one please - the one blog that, more than any other, inspired you to start blogging. Please don’t name Instapundit, unless you are on his blogchildren list.
  2. Don’t email me to tell me that you have no blogfather/mother. If that’s your view, that’s fine. But what I’m doing here is tracking intellectual heritage, or just strong influences. If the idea of blogging came to you fully-formed and no other blogger influenced you, I do not object. But I’m tracking lineages here.
  3. Include your blog-birth-month, the month that you started blogging, if you can.
  4. If you are reasonably certain that you have spawned any blog-children, mention them, too.
  5. Please connect to an existing lineage, or connect to some significant, influential, ur-blogger from five years ago, that I have egregiously omitted.

See The Blog Family Tree page. Don’t worry about the Left, Right, Other column headers; think of them A, B, and C, if you like. It’s just a way to organize the data in three presentable columns.

I had to move it. Wordpress would not upload it any more; it was too large.

Trackbacks & Pings

  1. Seek-Truth.com » Seek-Truth’s Blogfather demonstrates the power of Blogging on 22 Jun 2006 at 5:34 pm

    […] Vinny was the guy who got me into blogging 3 years ago. And I’m certain there are now exponentially more who share that honor. […]

Comments

  1. E Miller wrote:

    In 2003 [enron passover to Martha Stewart Date] I started a blog “She’s A Good Egg Martha” and before that “What Would George Say”. My Daddy therefore was cause, each blog thereafter has been cause inspired.

    Did I spawn others? Yes by me. Other than me, Now that’s what I want to know.

    Posted 13 Nov 2005 at 11:23 pm

  2. d-rod wrote:

    I’d say i’m a spawn of Michael J. Totten.

    Posted 23 Nov 2005 at 12:39 am

  3. Wendy wrote:

    My blogmother is bitemycookie (http://bitemycookie.typepad.com) She inspired me to write my own and helped me get started by making a post about my blog. I truly owe her a great deal. But I have to say, my first comment EVAH was from Citizen of the Month’s Neil Kramer.

    Blog Birth Month: December 2005

    Posted 04 Jan 2006 at 11:39 pm

  4. sokol wrote:

    Hilsen fra Klovnen “Tulliball”

    Posted 04 Apr 2006 at 9:47 am

  5. John the Marine wrote:

    My blogfather? Rightwing Nut House.

    Posted 04 Apr 2006 at 10:57 am

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