I first started blogging at a now-vanished blogspot blog back in August 2003. I first posted the day Arnold Schwarzenegger declared himself a candidate for governor in the recall election. The very first blog I commented on was Annika’s, and the next day, she became the first blogger to link to me.
Annika is a conservative Republican lawyer who likes guns and jet planes. Other than sharing an alma mater, we have nothing else in common. But we’ve commented every now and again at each other’s blogs for four years. I got the idea for “Thursday Short Poems” from her Wednesday Poetry series. And in 2005, she did an interview with me over IM.
Annika is leaving the blog world for now. I’ll miss my first blog friend very much.
For those of you who blog, who was your first commenter? Who first linked to you? To whom did you first link?
and the answer to all of those questions: you!
;-)! Yay!
I spent a year or two just blogging about my personal life, so my first linkers and commenters were my college friends who also blogged at that time. My first “political” blog link was Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (not because of any particular merits my blog had, he was just blogrolling every liberal blog he could find), who I haven’t read in years.