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How to Achieve Blogging Immortality

November 3rd, 2007 · by David Bradley >> 5 Comments

Motley crew of ageless bloggers

Have you noticed how none of us is getting any older? Last time I checked over my resume page on Sciencebase.com I was still the same, fairly fresh-faced guy I was five years ago when I had my portrait photo done. I don’t seem to have aged at all. Similarly, Dwight Silverman looks the same today at the first time I saw him on Twitter and some of my close blogging friends, among them Wayne Smallman and EyeonDNA star Hsien-Hsien Lei are looking no older today than when we first connected via IM. What’s going on?

Fellow tips and hacks bloggers JohnTP, Darren Rowse, and Amit Agarwal aren’t noticeably different in appearance since I first subscribed to their feeds, although I must admit John Chow looks a little bit worse for wear after the recent Google pagerank demotions, which were almost as significant as the fall of Pluto from its status as a planet. Nevertheless, it’s almost as if they’ve all achieved blogging immortality. What’s their secret I wonder?

5 responses so far ↓

  • Hsien Lei // Nov 3, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    You have lost your mind.

  • David Bradley // Nov 3, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    Heheheheh. Maybe. Hope you didn’t mind the extra link, just a little joke for a November Saturday…

  • Ed Kohler // Nov 4, 2007 at 11:15 pm

    LOL. Great point. Maybe someone should figure out a way to automatically age avatars?

  • David Bradley // Nov 5, 2007 at 8:28 am

    Well, I guess it would be relatively straightfoward to use a webcam to capture a new photo each day and parse it to a blog plugin that would update the avatar…

  • Wayne Smallman // Nov 8, 2007 at 8:06 am

    The photos I have floating around are fairly recent.

    But the sake of vanity, should my youth abandon me, I’ll be hangin’ onto these photos at the very least!

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