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December 10, 2006
Blog-Tag: A Game for a Virtual Cocktail Party
As a blogger, people may know you, but how good does anyone ever really know anyone? During the past few weeks I've attended a number of charity events in and around New York City and I've run into people who otherwise would be total strangers to me except for the fact that they recognized me from my blog and spoke to me as if they knew me. Most of the time they picked a relevant topic of conversation based on what I had recently blogged about and kept me engaged in an idle chit-chat.
And this experience put me down a path of thinking about some of the people I only know of in the blogosphere and for a moment I looked at them as under developed characters in a novel. And I asked myself, "How would we get to learn some additional information about these characters?" And then I stumbled upon a bubble of people talking about "Blog-Tag."
Turns out there is a game of Blog-Tag going around the blogosphere in which bloggers are sharing five things about themselves that relatively few people know, and then tagging five other bloggers to be "it."
While I'm not sure how open some of my Blogosphere friends are to a game of Blog-Tag but here goes:
[Five things about Jeff that relatively few people know:]
1. While I'm not an avid reader of novels, when I do read, chances are that I'm reading something from Michael Crichton or John Grisham.
2. Years before getting involved with VoIP, I was the CEO of a software company which published Fixed-Income Software.
3. I had a walk-on role on two TV shows: Spin City and Law and Order. And you can look for me in a future episode of Medium.
4. Three Broadcast/Cable TV Shows that matter to me these days are: Heros, House and Entourage.
5. Three of my own favorite quotes are: "You can outsource many things but you can not outsource fun!", "If you don't ask, the answer is No!", "Being Lucky is OK!"
Now it's my turn to tag!
Andy Abramson, Steve Garfield, Andrew Baron, Justin Kownacki, Jacob Ner David...Your It!
Tags: Andy Abramson, Steve Garfield, Andrew Baron, Justin Kownacki, Jacob Ner David, Jeff Pulver
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Posted by jeff on December 10, 2006 06:13 AM | Permalink
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Comments
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Posted by: Michael at February 8, 2007 06:46 AM
Hi Jeff,
I'm french and I live in Normandy. I was tagged with your game like more than one million bloggers all over the world. :-)
Congratulations, I just wanted to say hello !
Bye
Phil
Posted by: phil at January 24, 2007 04:22 AM
New to blogging and this sounds great!
Posted by: David Pearce at January 23, 2007 06:15 AM
Too bad if you don't read french ;)
Le "jeu" s'est poursuivi en France ; voici une des pistes où vous êtes le bienvenue :)
http://oliviersc.blog.lemonde.fr/2007/01/05/le-cinq-a-suivre/
Regards
Posted by: Olivier SC at January 17, 2007 12:00 PM
hahaha...I just got tagged last week!!!...and I wanted to know where the idea was from.:)lol
Posted by: Lottar at January 15, 2007 07:30 PM
Greetings from Bangkok, Jeff :"}
Google search led me to your page when I was looking for info on how to play blog-tag, so you must be quite popular! (in case you don't know that yet.)
I juz got tagged by a friend and, being a new-born blogger, I was lost in blogsphere. Gotta go back and think of what to tell the netizens.
Thks!
Posted by: purring softly at January 14, 2007 07:52 PM
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for dropping by my blog. Have only managed to make it one VON (in London in 2004) but have appreciated the value of information sharing that you "catalyse" (can that be a verb?). I'm chewing on why this game of tag has been so popular, while being so "off topic" and frivolous. One local (South African) SEO player has taken a very contrary view to it: http://www.gottaquirk.com/post/202/5-reasons-why-blog-tag-sucks
- I need to digest his views before readjusting mine.
Good to "meet you" - I'll buy you a drink if I make to another VON - particularly if you arrange a good jazz band! ;)
Posted by: Dave Gale at January 10, 2007 03:11 PM
28th generation reporting at:
Posted by: Arun at January 9, 2007 04:30 PM
I'm working on mine. I only have 4 things so far.
Posted by: Victoria at January 4, 2007 09:00 PM
I took some time to trace it back again. There are 28 generations until the Rusty post, where I've heard about the meme for the first time.
Here is the complete trace: http://raisama.net/tmp/5things.html
Posted by: Eduardo Habkost at January 2, 2007 03:02 PM
It took more than half an hour, and a couple of times I needed to use the google cache, but finally I've traced the meme to its creator. :)
I have not been tagged yet. I've started the tracing here:
http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/2007/01/02#2007-01-02
Unfortunately, I have not counted the number of generations from there.
Posted by: Eduardo Habkost at January 2, 2007 02:36 PM
Thanks for the motivation to start a tag game with several of the blogs I follow. Keep up the great work!! rick
Posted by: rick at January 1, 2007 03:16 PM
سلام:
منو ممد و سلطان بانو معرفی کردن :
حالا از خصوصیاتم که فکر کنم 90%نمی دونن:
1=تا حالا هیچوقت برا از دست دادن پسر مورد علاقم اشک نریختم غرورمم براش نشکستم برا همین از دستش دادم
2=از 8سالگی عاشقه اسکیت سواری بودم ولی از وقتی گرفتم حتی برا امتحان کردنم نپوشیدمش
3=هیچ وقت از 5 سالگی به بعد بغل مامانم نخوابیدم بغلش نکردم نبوسیدمش مگر موقع عیداولی تا 15 سالگی می کشتم خودمو بغله بابام باشم و ببوسمش
4=ازشیر و گوشتو مرغومیوه جات و خیار(تو سالاد)متنفرم و هیچ وقت سالاد نمی خورم
5=روزی 5 تا نانی با 2 تا شکلات البینا باید بخورم تا مغزم کار کنه
5تا وبلاگ خوب:
1=چپ دست(علی)
2=پسر دوزخی(سعید)
3=جسد(میثم)
4=صمیمی نشو(سحر)
5=زمین شناس کوچولو(سورنا)
Posted by: sahel at December 30, 2006 08:37 AM
Amazing. Today is December 28th and this edition the of "Blog-tag" game continues to be played in the Blogosphere. Special thanks to EVERYONE who has played along and for contributing to this unique and evolving social sculpture. Happy New Year 2007! Best regards, Jeff (air-blogging from 35,000 ft)
Posted by: Jeff Pulver at December 28, 2006 11:47 AM
Here is the hierarchy of the blog tag game you started on the 10th of December.
14. Bart Gibby (Me)
13. Brad Pace
12. Jeremy Palmer
11. Scott Jangro
10. Shawn Collins
9. Sam Harrelson
8. Jim Kukral
7 .Shmuly
6 .Kris Jones
5. Jeremy Schoemaker
4. Andy Beal
3 .Avinash Kaushik
2. Dave Gale
1. Jeff Pulver (You)
Cheers
Posted by: Bart Gibby at December 27, 2006 06:10 PM
Alright, it's time to make a semantic web pitch over here! Wouldn't it be cool to track the evolution of this game from birds eye perspective?
Posted by: Jiri Kopsa at December 27, 2006 03:37 PM
شب یلدا زیر کرسی مادربزرگ، برگه های خشک هلو جوز قند، انار و شعرهای پدربزرگ:" ایا بلبل ایا بلبل دهان تنگ دارد غنچه گل..." عطر دستهای پدربزرگ عطر کوچه باغهای بچه گی ها... راستی غربت آن عطر را به کجا برد؟
و آن 5 نکته راجع به من:
1.از 5 سالگی با یک هیولا همسایه ام. تنها دوستی که هرگز تنهایم نمی گذارد.
2. وقتی خسته می شوم و خوابم می گیرد علی بهونه گیر می شوم.
3. اگر از دوستی محبتی ببینم آن را برای همیشه روی قلبم خال کوبی می کنم
4. همیشه عاشق
5.دایی جان ناپلئون و شخصیت هایش بیشتر وقت ها ورد زبان است.
پنج وبلاگ خوب
وبلاگ پویا، پرواز با پروانه، دریاروندگان،حرفهای تنهایی و انجمن حمایت از کودکان کار
Posted by: حمیرا at December 27, 2006 02:55 AM
Here I go Jeff, I don't if I played it right!
my post http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/2006/12/jeff-pulvers-blog-tag-takes-many-turns.html
Posted by: Ravenii at December 26, 2006 04:20 AM
Wow! Two weeks later and this game of "Blog-Tag" Continues on. I just saw a blog-post whose geneology went back 21 "generations." Happy Holidays to everyone!
Posted by: Jeff Pulver at December 24, 2006 03:21 PM
I didn't mind getting in on the action today and giving credit where credit is due to Jeff for starting this whole thing off. Check it out:
http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2006/12/ive-been-tagged-in-game-of-blog-tag.html
THANKS for doing this. Except I wanted MORE than just 5 people to participate, so I invited my ENTIRE list of blog readers to do it. If all of the nearly 100,000 of them get in the game, that would be something. :) Oh what fun!
Jimmy Moore, author of "Livin' La Vida Low-Carb"
LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com
livinlowcarbman@charter.net
Posted by: Jimmy Moore at December 23, 2006 01:23 PM
An 18th generation tagged person traces it back to here: http://conorcahill.blogspot.com/2006/12/5-things-traceback.html
Posted by: Conor Cahill at December 21, 2006 05:53 PM
Jeff, you started a revolution. It's a silly revolution but YOU started it (sort of?) and it seems to be spreading fast! Good work.
Posted by: Joe Duck at December 18, 2006 05:13 PM
Michael - Great piece of work! Thanks for building out the current "family tree" for this iteration of "Blog-Tag."
Posted by: Jeff Pulver at December 15, 2006 07:58 PM
Jeff:
Fun game. I created a "Blog Tag Tree" that shows where your blog tag has been passed on, although I am focusing my depth a bit more on the SEO Blogosphere line (that interestingly started all by itself...).
Posted by: Michael Jensen at December 15, 2006 07:45 PM
Six days later and this game of "Blog-Tag" continues to live in the blogosphere. Pretty cool. :)
Posted by: Jeff Pulver at December 15, 2006 05:57 PM
Don't feel too bad, Michael. I wasn't included either. :) However, I'd love to play -- I guess I'll have to start my own entry and "tag" a few people. :)
Posted by: Ronald Lewis at December 11, 2006 05:29 PM
As did I: http://www.somethingtobedesired.com/blog/2006/12/blog-tag-im-momentarily-it.html
Thanks for the tag. Cheers.
Posted by: Justin Kownacki at December 10, 2006 06:02 PM
i wanna play! Oh wait, I wasn't picked.
Posted by: michael arrington at December 10, 2006 03:13 PM
Hi Jeff,
I did it.
Jeff Pulver wants me to share five things.
http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2006/12/jeff-pulver-wants-me-to-share-five.html
--Steve
Posted by: steve garfield at December 10, 2006 07:44 AM