How to Achieve Blogging Immortality
November 3rd, 2007 by David Bradley >> 6 Comments
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 as 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? Some kind of inverted Dorian Gray effect, I think?
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?
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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!
David Bradley // Jul 13, 2010 at 5:37 pm
For those who care about such things, I’ve suddenly got old and grumpy, adopted glasses, and reckon the blogimmortality elixir must be wearing off.
http://www.twitpic.com/24yy03