Bloggers, you can email me 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 heritages, 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.

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