Comments on: Karenne on blogging- Interview Part One

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:28:34 +0000

And today, Alex rapidly jumped 2 points to the #2 spot with Jeremy Day holding firm at #9.

Will they keep it up? Can they beat the Queen of the Blogosphere?

No one has ever beaten her for friendliest… and she’s successfully behind Lindsay for wordiest – Thomas Python column is definitely wrong….must must get back to Dan Brown column.

;-)

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:57:14 +0000

I think we should both follow Karenne’s example and pretend it’s not important where we are this week in the chart. Personally, I couldn’t care less that I’m back in the top ten …

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:58:08 +0000

I think Onestopblogs should do a chart show as a podcast:

“And slipping down to number 4 after too many silly ideas about improving TEFL pay, it’s TEFLtastic”

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:44:53 +0000

Alex: I think I’ve rumbled her. A few months ago she gained access to my blog under the pretense of ‘helping to sort out html soup’ and make it readable again. (OK, I’ll admit it was looking pretty bad. Blogger is great until you make a mistake with the html, and then it turns evil, sucking you into a deeper and deeper mess).
But then a few weeks later I noticed the hyperlinks in my archived articles had been changed so they went to Kalinago. All of them!
I’ve had a look at your old articles too and they all lead there too … it’s quite scary, really, the lengths some people will go to to get to the top.

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:35:08 +0000

Or maybe I’m sleeping with the boss.

By: Tara Benwell

Tara Benwell — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:28:18 +0000

Great interview! Looking forward to parts 2 and 3. The Obama stuff sucked me in too. Love the note on “karmic math”.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:58:14 +0000

Got two theories on Karenne’s cheating

1. Does anyone know who owns Macmillan? Me neither. What with her getting paid a German wage in Euros and the present value of the pound, she just bought the company so she could control Onestopblogs

2. Did you notice how the new rash of blogs sprung up a couple of months after Karenne’s. With her well known energy levels and enthusiasm, I think she just runs them all under different names and just links to herself. In fact, maybe I’m Karenne too!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:18:30 +0000

Hi Alex
I think the main reason Karenne has that sense of community on her blog is that she genuinely cares about the people in that community. Karenne’s been tremendously supportive to me in my first tentative steps in the blogosphere, but now I realise she didn’t single me out for special care and attention. That’s how she treats everybody. (I think). That takes a huge amount of commitment, energy and character.
What I like about Karenne as a writer is that she explains difficult concepts in very simple language without ever talking down to us. I’m not especially clued-up on technology or dogme, but I know I can get practical, understandable and often entertaining information about those things from her.
Even more importantly, we get a real sense of Karenne as a person. Her meeting with Obama, her near death experience … both very powerful pieces of writing, and there have been many more like them.
Finally, her monthly round-ups have become must-reads. It’s through them that I’ve become aware of so much great stuff out there (including your fantastic blog, Alex, which is another of my favourites).
As for how she gets to be top of the OneStopBlogs, I think you’re right that it’s all a scam. She claims not to care about being number 1, but she has a habit of mentioning it quite often …
Cheers, and looking forward to part 2 …
Jeremy