Letters from NYC

What’s Your Blog IQ?

I tested out this quiz for a developer friend of mine a few weeks ago and forgot to post the results. Unfortunately I'm unable to share a link because I don't know if he's published it yet. I think you all are equally experienced so I think you all deserve the title Blog Guru's anyway, so there's no need to take the quiz.

Blog Guru

You know your way around the vast blogosphere (universe of blogs). You're able to find your way through a blogstorm – a flurry of blog conversation – to start making connections. As a result, you may have scored an invitation to a "dark blog" [a blog visible only to members]. You may even have your own blog. However, as web saavy as you are, you don't need to be a web guru to know that many soldiers have established 'milblogs' from the frontlines in order to give voice to their experiences. With time, you too will be part of the blogerati.

Your blog style takes you beyond the fluff of the blogosphere and into the substance. Blogs can be a powerful and informative resource. Blogs give everyone a chance to be heard, even the trolls (disruptive bloggers). Of course, you can always "blurk" – read without posting – instead. You, however participate on your own terms and in your own way.

You're such a blog junkie, that others refer to one of your blogs as 'blogfood' (refer to obliquely). Your blog's blogroll (list of favorite blogs) has more links than Colin Farrell has phone numbers on matchbook covers. You could use this network to your advantage, but you don't, instead prefering to enjoy the digital landscape you're a part of.