Ben recently posted something like this, and i thought it was interesting. this might be because i have no life, and reading blogs about blogging is better than staring at my teal colored walls. i started a version of this journal 3 years ago. it started on this site using livejournal, moved back to blogger software at blogspot, and eventually moved off blogger and back onto archgfx with WordPress, where it's going to stay for as long as i have interest in it.
Pewxi. she doesn't have a weblog anymore, or at least not one she links to. she introduced me to the concept, and her graphics and layout blew me away. she explained to me how to customize greymatter templates, and made me want to have a weblog/news component to my website. unfortunately, none of the early webhosts i used supported perl, so i never ran greymatter
Jon Iffland. shortly after that, jon was all in a buzz about blogger, and was the first person to use the word "blog". everyone loves to make fun of the word as a written-only word that sounds gross when you say it, but the first time i heard it, i heard it out loud. shortly afterwards blogging took over most of his group of friends, including some mutual friends.
Ivonne. her journal has been gone since we broke up. our back-and-forth, conversational blogging is responsible for the title of my blog, since most of what i wrote while we were dating was an apology, or needed an apology afterward.
Dave Iffland. after jon, pat, erin, dave (rouche) and everyone else stopped posting, and after i wasn't with ivonne anymore, i stopped having any reason to post anything personal. but between scouring google for help with running linux, and reading dave's blog, i started posting a lot more geek-related posts, since geek related posts are the most direct usefulness of blogs i've found.
Melanie. if not for her, my blog would be completely technical at this point. granted, most personal stuff still goes on in other journals behind 'registration required' doors, but that's ok. when i used to post really honest, really personal things, there was no technorati, there was no "next blog" link on blogger, if you didn't click a direct link, you weren't reading my blog.
Ben Gray. after dave started his blog, i got back in touch with ben, and since the summer, we've been egging each other on as far as design and content. now that jon's posting again, my personal blaw-goes-fear is actually about what i'd like it to be.
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