Fellow bloggers, we need to coin a word for that phenomenon we've all experienced: You post a link on your modest little blog to something funny or weird or interesting, and then a few hours or days or weeks or even months later, one of the Popular Kids (e.g., BoingBoing) posts the same link, and suddenly everyone on the planet is falling all over themselves about how clever the Popular Kid is for posting that link. Just a wee bit demoralizing, ain't it?
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April 28, 2008
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What was it? TypeRacer?
Posted by: Di | April 28, 2008 at 08:43 PM
No -- although it probably will be soon! It happens all the time, i can't even count. Here's a f'rinstance, though: Several weeks ago I posted about a T-shirt typo at the mall (http://verbatim.blogs.com/verbatim/2008/04/trapped-like-ma.html), and just today it showed up on a Popular Site (cough cough Gawker.com cough cough). Ah well!
Posted by: Karen | April 28, 2008 at 08:48 PM
I've never heard of those other two bloggers, so they can't be that famous. You're a celebrity in my book, Karen!
Posted by: Margaret | April 28, 2008 at 08:51 PM
A corollary to this is when you send a link 'round to your friends, then two months later they send it to you because they ... didn't read your email? :(
Posted by: Erin | April 28, 2008 at 09:13 PM
Tell me about it!
Posted by: the nag | April 29, 2008 at 12:02 PM
I call it 'firstonitis.' I do lots of things first, and I like to be acknowleged. Damn popular kids.
Posted by: raych | April 29, 2008 at 05:29 PM
But, if we do come up with a term won't the Popular Kids just steal it?
Posted by: califmom | April 30, 2008 at 12:19 AM
Yes! I've posted extremely obscure stuff on my site -- things like weird Etsy or Flickr finds -- and then seen them show up on high-traffic blogs (I'm looking at you, Babble and Apartment Therapy). There's NO WAY they found them on their own, but do I ever get credit? The nerve.
Posted by: Tammy | April 30, 2008 at 12:58 AM