Words For Your Enjoyment: Historical Words
April 7th, 2006
Next week is about to become history.
As you may or may not remember, April 10-14th is the Grassroots Blogger Book Marketing Campaign (or GBBMC for short) — a contest/exercise created by Kevin Apgar to help promote my upcoming book The Lost Blogs. During that week, roughly 40 participating sites (with the deadline being today to register) will blog as historical figures each and every day…and will challenge you to guess just who they’re supposed to be. Three lucky participants (as voted by yours truly as the best historical blogs) will walk away with a signed copy of The Lost Blogs.
So in preparation of next week, I wanted to give all the participants thus far a little linkage before their historical transformations occur on Monday. Check out the list and the words on their blogs — there’s some great sites here you may never have stumbled across.
- Kapgar.com
- Blogography
- Mikey
- Internal Monoblog
- Two Thoughts Before the Epiphany
- Take Me As I Blog
- I Found A Fatal Flaw In The Logic of Love
- in a kingdom by the sea
- The Seinfeldian
- Whirled Peas
- Groovebunny
- Ninja Poodles
- Taste the World
- Afraid of Diving
- Divine Calm
- LA Brain Terrain
- Hurty Elbow
- My Euro-American Life
- Amandarin
- so anyway…
- star inside
- Ms. Sisyphus
- American Twentysomething
- Mattlandia
- I Am What I Am
- Insert Blog Name Here
- All Things Jennifer
- Where’s My Lightbulb?
- Getting Jaggy With It
- Signifying Nothing
- Work In Progress…
- Life After Work
- Secondhand Tryptophan
- Chronic Listaholic
- harmonyinline
- ilaxSTUDIO
- Jill Writes
- I’m Just A Girl
- Down With Pants
- Der Auslander
- Unsettled
- Jen’s 14,221 Thoughts
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In other news, you can also try your hand at winning a copy of The Lost Blogs here and here.
Hey that’s very nice of you to publish the links, thanx!
And thanks too for supporting the campaign - i’m looking forward both to writing as my chosen character *and* to see how others have tackled the same “assignment”. Cheers!
Comment by *lynne* — April 7, 2006 @ 7:42 am
I like to publish links. Publishing used to be limited to the kind of desktop publishing you’d do with that old program called PRINT SHOP. But no longer. Now, instead of publishing my own crappy newsletters and printing out greeting cards, I can publish links.
So that’s what I do.
Comment by Pauly D — April 7, 2006 @ 8:44 am
I hate to be cliche about it, but I am so stoked about this whole thing. This should be a fun week.
Comment by Kevin — April 7, 2006 @ 9:39 am
I pimp you, you pimp me. I like how that works! =) Thanks for the linkage!
Comment by Ms. Q — April 7, 2006 @ 9:57 am
Thanks for the link! I’m excited to read everyones posts next week but even more excited to promote YOU Pauly D.
Comment by Alissa — April 7, 2006 @ 12:28 pm
I can’t decide which is going to be more fun, blogging as my historical character, or reading everyone else’s!
Thanks for the mention. If we take nothing else away from this experience, at least we can all say we were mentioned in THE Paul Davidson’s (nephew of John) blog!
Comment by SJ — April 7, 2006 @ 1:08 pm
Thanks for the link. I’ve been pondering my historical figure quite a bit today, and I have to say–this is FUN! I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s!
Comment by Jill — April 7, 2006 @ 2:35 pm
With all those blogs to read, how am I going to find time to WRITE?!
Comment by Rabbit — April 7, 2006 @ 5:06 pm
I’m excited to do it — should be fun! But I’m actually more excited to read the book. And I don’t mean that in an ass-kissy way.
Comment by sandra — April 7, 2006 @ 5:16 pm
Most cool. Thanks for the linkage, Paul. Looking forward to reading everyone’s entries next week…and seeing who the heck I pick as my character. Ack!
Comment by Karl — April 7, 2006 @ 6:53 pm
Would have loved to participate, but will be blogless over the first few days of Passover, and sadly unable to post…I guess I’m disqualified…anti-Semites…
Comment by Esther Kustanowitz — April 9, 2006 @ 11:53 am
So far, it’s a hoot. Mine is pretty lame, but some of the others are really cool. The problem is, I’m going to get my book, and then be all, “OH, THAT’S how I was supposed to do it!” Dang flying blind.
Comment by Belinda — April 11, 2006 @ 12:40 am
Belinda - I’m very impressed with what people are coming out with. People are putting a lot of thought (and research, it seems) into their entries. Very cool.
Comment by Pauly D — April 11, 2006 @ 6:28 am
I’d participate, but the only historical figure I know anything about is Batman.
Comment by Pierce — April 11, 2006 @ 7:27 am
buzz, buzz, buzz!
Comment by Kathleen — April 11, 2006 @ 11:55 pm