My Blog Heritage

Via Kate, I see that The Commissar is tracking blog lineages. You sign up, indicating what blogger was influential in your starting up a blog, fitting yourself into one of the blog lineages The Commissar has identified.

When I saw this, I chuckled.

You see, I first encountered blogging through a lineage The Commissar hasn't really acknowledged just yet: youth culture.

It went kind of like this.

One day, my teen said to me, "Mom, you should blog."

I said something like, "What?"

Her: "You should blog."

Me: "What the bleep is a blog?"

And it went from there. She already had a blog -- several, I think, at that point -- having learned about them from other teens. In fact, she was involved in a closely linked network of teen bloggers, some of whom have really creative sites.

She taught me how to blog. She taught me about html coding. She opened the door to blogdom for me.

Later, she came to regret this, given that we had to share the same home computer.

*snicker*

After I started up my own blog, Google, as well as other bloggers' blogrolls and links, pretty much guided me the rest of the way through the world of blog.

My daughter; my blogmother.

By the way, her blogs always look a lot better than mine.