A-list Chain Letters

Posted December 20th, 2006 by Char Lyn

With Web 2.0 upon us, those snail mail chain letters have transformed into blog tag, a game even A-list bloggers are willing to play. The latest game of blog tag in which you state five little-known facts about yourself has infected the likes of Robert Scoble, Steve Rubel, and Amanda Congdon. Thanks to the memetag, we know that that the game some of these A-listers are playing was started by Jeff Pulver on December 10th.

The graph above shows the number of blog authors who mentioned “blog tag” and “5 things” in the same post during the past 3 months. It seems the A-listers are late to a game that peaked in early November by the bloggers in MySpace. 

Perhaps the moral of the tagging story is that the bloglebrities of the world are regular people reflecting the common themes in today’s society. So go head, post five little-known facts about yourself, forward that email that asks you 20 somewhat-embarrassing questions, enjoy what you learn about yourself and others in the process, and know that you are in good company.

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