Blogrolling
Chapter 1: William Gibson

So many new words have emerged from the blogosphere (there's one) that Bloglish (there's another) might someday become a full-fledged dialect of English. This week, The Dagley Dagley Daily is focusing on only one of those new words: blogrolling. Blogrolling occurs when one blog makes reference to, or even recommends, another blog. Many blogs feature blogrolls, or lists of recommended blogs. We might get around to doing that eventually, but meanwhile, we'd rather focus on a few of our favorites, so this week we'll be featuring a different blog every day. Blogrolling can be very important to the success of any blog, since most of the blog-rating sites score blogs according to the number of other sites, particularly blogs, that link to them.

If you're a regular reader, you know we've already blogrolled the site of Baghdad blogger Salam Pax. So have a lot of other bloggers; Salam's "Where is Raed?" blog is currently ranked #2 by the Daypop search engine. One of the bloggers who has frequently mentioned Salam Pax is William Gibson (yes, THAT William Gibson). The man who coined the term "cyberspace" has his own cyber-outpost, for now. Though Salam Pax has returned (and even mentioned William Gibson), Gibson is now exiting the blogosphere: he announced a few weeks ago that he will soon stop posting long enough to write another novel. Meanwhile, he's still touring to promote his latest and most-acclaimed work so far, Pattern Recognition.

As if to illustrate that everything (and everyone) in cyberspace is connected, Gibson even mentions Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in his blog bio.