Over at total information awareness I encountered a new blog meme: name five people you'd like to blog with. I interpret this as "name five people, living or dead, whose blogs you'd like to read and link to"; only a supreme egotist would expect mutual blogrolling from a superstar. Anyway, here are my five, avoiding the obvious choices like Einstein, Mark Twain and Ben Franklin:
Hopefully these choices are self-explanatory. My guiding principle is that of the 17th century English diarist, John Evelyn: Omnia explorate; meliora retinete (‘explore everything; keep the best’).
The blogs where I read about this said something about "tagging" other bloggers, but that seems inconsistent with the spirit of blogging. Memes spread if they deserve to. Let's see if this one does. Your turn. (However, if I were tagging, I'd choose Terry, Alec Muffett, and Jonathan Schwartz.)
Posted by geoff2 at April 30, 2005 11:11 PMSave me from my lack of knowledge.... "tagging" is?
Posted by: kate at May 1, 2005 02:46 PMIn this context, I take it to mean tagging as in the game of tag: "you're it", i.e. you're next. As I said, I find this somewhat antithetical to the spirit of the blogosphere....
Posted by: Geoff Arnold at May 1, 2005 02:59 PMWilliam Dampier. Of course there is the minor need to deliver him connectivity, pretty much worldwide, in the late 1600s early 1700s, and you'd best have one heck of a robust device for the man.
Posted by: David at May 2, 2005 12:19 PMSee http://katestout.com/smoothstones/2005/05/spreading-memes.html
Or,
Voltaire, Emma Goldman, Feyman, Chaucer, Churchill
Chosen for the stimulation factor.
Posted by: kate at May 2, 2005 05:28 PM