Keep plugging or pull the plug?

The Stylish Blogger nominations have died down now I notice. But how? Surely they multiply until the internet collapses? Have they left our part of the blogosphere? Did they get deleted by Blogger last week?

Wherever, after the dust has settled I have five more to turn the mind to. I'm very grateful to John Lambshead, jabberjabber, Ricalope, James S and Brian for thinking the Expanse is worthy of them, and especially for the generous words that were written.

But what to do now? After the first from The Angry Lurker I passed the award on to 15 blogs, and very gladly, but if I do that five more times, that's 75 more blogs nominated.

Can Blogger hold up? Can we?

I do want to nominate more, and would willingly nominate even more than I can. It's fair more of the great blogs out there get the attention they deserve. That said, I realise patience, time and probably also value have been stretched. Should a break of some kind be made? Maybe there's a more intelligent approach I just can't see?

I've been looking, but no revelations. Any thoughts?
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Where the style's at - not here

I did make a mistake re the 15 Stylish Bloggers.

Turns out there's two blogs with the name Appendix N, the one I linked to with 11 followers, and the one I actually nominated, with 52 followers. The one with 11 doesn't meet the recent activity criterion either.

The third blog, the one that missed out in the confusion, is The WarBlog, on the subject of wargaming, and specifically Warhammer 40,000 and Warmachine.

I guess if the limit of 15 is rigid, I'll borrow the concept of superposition from quantum mechanics and say all of them win it, in different parts of the multiverse. Well done!

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Where the style's at

So The Angry Lurker passed me the Stylish Blogger Award yesterday. I'm very grateful for the kind words. And I don't mind believing I'm stylish so I'll play along.

The award's contagious. Soon we'll all have it, and I need to pass it on now to another 10-15 other bloggers. The trouble is, if I could pass it on to 100-150, it still wouldn't be enough, and even 300 would be too few.

Here's a solution. In the same way I can get one up on nature's contagions by washing my hands, I'll get one up on this too by washing my hands of choosing favourites. I'll give it to the 15 bloggers I follow with the least followers themselves, to build up resistance early you might say.

They're all bloggers I think have real style, otherwise I wouldn't follow. More importantly they're all bloggers who show their style in another way, by posting at a high level despite a readership presumably still quite low. That's something special, and difficult, and deserves recognition. There's also a poetry in it: Angry was follower three for me.

I've been through the list and found the 15 bloggers with the least followers, where I have the number. To be sure they're still active I've left out blogs where the gap since or before the last post is a month or more. The blogs being deleted by Greg I've skipped. There might be errors, and if anyone has the patience to find them, I'll happily correct.

Anyway, no more detail. The 15 new and very deserving Stylish Bloggers are:

• Appendix N - inspirations for roleplaying

• chronicles of the underdog - reflections of a fiction-loving SA student

• defcon's defunct delirium - gamer, reader and writer

• Dice Like Dave - mixed wargaming, with lots of battle reports

• Hereticwerks - a gaming resource from NetherWerks

• Future War Stories - military science fiction

• Marks Art - art and photography

• Newschool RPG - critiques of old school roleplaying

• Of Cabbages and Kings Food Blog - food and photography

• Passion For Poetry - poems by form

• Recalcitrant Daze - vehicle modelling for Warhammer 40,000

• Servitor Ludi - old school roleplaying game design

• shenblog - Shen get own blog, no monkey, e.g. NetherWerks

• The Roebuck Poets - a three-strong poetry-writing collective

• Worlds Unimagined - thoughts on speculative fiction

No blog in the list has more than 11 known followers and one blog has just the one. It's amazing how many blogs there are just crying out for readers - a lot of blogs just missed at 12, 13 or 14 followers. I say check the blogrolls, find a few you like and start reading.

I also need to tell you seven things about myself, but I'll do that in another post because this one's getting long and I don't want to steal anyone's thunder.

Here's one for the road though - I read a lot of blogs.

Update: And another one - I'm very fallible. There is a mistake. The details are here.

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