Internet Duct Tape featured in Blogging Heroes
When bloggers like Gina Trapani, Mark Frauenfelder, Chris Anderson, and Phillip Lennsen are honored to be collected in New York Times’ bestselling author Michael A. Banks’ new book, Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers I can’t even begin to describe how exciting it is to be included in the list. “Someone must be making a mistake,” went through my head several times.
From the cover of the book you can see a list of a many of my blogging heroes: Frank Warren (PostSecret), Gina Trapani (LifeHacker), Merlin Mann (43folders), Peter Rojas (EnGadget), Chris Anderson (Wired), Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Robert Scoble, Steve Rubel
Several other sites are posting previews from their chapters in the book, so I will as well: Blogging Heroes Preview Chapter – Internet Duct Tape
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Here’s a list of some of the other free chapters that are available online:
- Boing Boing’s Mark Frauenfelder
- Wired’s Chris Anderson (author of the Long Tail)
- Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani
- TechDirt’s Mike Masnick
If you spot any other chapters in the wild, drop me a comment on this blog post and I’ll add them to the list.
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Congratulations, man. ;)
Congratulations! Very impressive.
heh, congrats! now that you’re in print, does this mean you qualify for a wikipedia entry? (I see the book already has one)
Sweet. Plus the dubious distintion of the truncated last name :)
Very nice…congratulations!
Wow, that is quite an accomplishment! And you have earned it – your blog is excellent – don’t sell yourself short.
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@Webomatica:
During the interview Mike said it made him think of me as a rapper. :)
@adam:
I think it takes more than one book interview to get into wikipedia as a blogger.
http://internetducttape.com/2006/12/05/on-wikipedia-blogging-and-the-anti-blog-bias/
They’re pretty much anti-bloggers there. Which is understandable, given how much we self-promote. Thanks for the heads-up on the wiki page for the book though.
A great interview of a great blogger! Congratulations!
Congrats. I am not surprised though.
This is really a great thing! Extremely impressive stuff! (sorry for the late comment……just slow) ! ! !
Very cool stuff…congrats, Eric!
I won’t buy the book but I’m checking out your preview chapter now. :)
I like what you say in this chapter.
It’s true that blogging is much “self referential” (I counted 15 times the word “self” in this chapter by the way). Some very popular bloggers blogging about blogs end up being very boring, in my opinion..
Your advice on finding ways to post about what can help others is simple and good. Also to post about problems one is facing… taking us back to the subject “how to have a popular blog”, I suppose.
You deserve it engtech. Congrats!
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Steve Rubel’s chapter:
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/11/blogging-heroes.html
Congrats on getting in the book. It means you are doing something right… It looks like you are doing a lot of things right.
That is awesome ***, huge recognition.
Engtech, that must be a dream come true. Such fine company! You’re deserving, though. Don’t think you aren’t.
Congratulations be upon you :).
Wow deserved.
That is so awesome! You may be surprised, but I certainly am not. Congrats!
awesome achievement. you totally deserved it.
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Part 3:
http://mikebanks.blogspot.com/2007/11/writing-blogging-heroes-part-3.html
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part 4: interview transcription techniques
http://mikebanks.blogspot.com/2007/11/writing-blogging-heroes-part-4.html
Kudos to you man – you deserve it!
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Thanks for the links to the how-to (or, at least, how I did it) posts at my blog, Eric. And, nope, it was no mistake: you represent a lot of good bloggers!
Rap on,
–Mike
Congratulations! Man, Raincoaster should be on that list too.
http://www.raincoaster.com
Hey, picked up the book and read your section. Loved your take on blogging. Very good food for thought.
@ Guy:
thank you
I guess I should read the book now :)
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