While linking for accuracy\u00a0is the currency of the \u2019sphere, few outside of the likes of Hugh Hewitt, Glenn Reynolds and a handful of others can be said to be truely effusive with their praise of small(er) fry.<\/p>\n
Few, that is, with the notable exception of Mitch Berg…For the past several years, Mitch has generously found ways to to shine a light on the best blogging in town.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It’s hard not to; there’s so much of it!<\/p>\n
Seriously, thanks, Gary.\u00a0 This region is crawling with great blogs – almost too many, in the sense that there are so <\/em>many that are so <\/em>good, and only so many hours in the day to read ’em.\u00a0 There are dozens of absolutely essential bloggers in the upper midwest who may clock between 30 and 200 visitors a day, each of whom deserve an order of magnitude more.\u00a0<\/p>\nAnd it’s hard to start a blog these days.\u00a0 Chad and Brian and I had this conversation after the show years ago (and it gives me pause to note that the NARN’s been on the air long enough to be able to say anything <\/em>was “years ago”)\u00a0– we are all keenly aware that we got into blogging back when there was still a lot <\/em>of sod to be turned; when a lot of blog readers’ habits were just starting to form.\u00a0 It gave us a lot of positive inertia.<\/p>\nBut even then, Shot In The Dark <\/em>got on the map due to the very kind,\u00a0mostly-undeserved\u00a0attention paid it by the likes of James Lileks, Hewitt, and especially Glen Reynolds (and, one glorious evening in 2004, all three of them simultaneously, online and <\/em>on the Hewitt Show) as well as the Powerline guys, Gerald Van Der Leun, Kim Du Toit, and many more.\u00a0<\/p>\nSo while I don’t believe in Karma, I do<\/em>\u00a0 think what goes around comes around.\u00a0 And I do <\/em>believe in making sure the world – or the part of it that reads Shot In The Dark – <\/em>should see some of the great bloggers lurking in the Twin Cities.\u00a0<\/p>\nAnd so I hatched a plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But more about that on Monday.<\/p>\n
UPDATE:\u00a0 Of course, it’s more than just the Twin Cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the things for which I’m most thankful for blogging is the huge number of really great people it’s helped me meet.\u00a0 Before this blog started, I was a fairly-newly-divorced guy, pretty much head-down with kid stuff and maintaining a career in a then-deteriorating software market.\u00a0 The blog, and the show after it, introduced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}