Comments on: I love your blog awards

By: mandarine

mandarine — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:01:58 +0000

I have been amazed by this easy access ever since the beginning of the internet when I was still a student back in the early 1990’s. A world in which I could email any scientist (and get a reply if my request was well-written and interesting) as if we had been back in the early days of medieval universities like the Sorbonne, Salamanca or Oxford. Now with blogs and comments, it is even easier to get to know (and be friend with) whomever I like: a roman forum at a planetary scale. Enough to me dizzy when I come to think of it.

By: bloglily

bloglily — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:20:28 +0000

This is just the loveliest compliment, to be included in such wonderful company. The only blog I don’t know is Pirate’s Library, which sounds like an enormous amount of fun.

You know, reading your post, I realize we’ve actually all “known” each other for quite some time — I feel like all of you are my friends, people I love to read, whose lives I enjoy following. This is one of the amazing things about writing a blog, the fact that you can have such easy access to some amazing thinkers, writers, and people.

By: mandarine

mandarine — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:39:31 +0000

You are all very welcome. Please keep writing.

By: Smithereens

Smithereens — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:11:08 +0000

Thanks for the compliment! I feel so lucky whenever you post one of your brilliant theories (even when I disagree ), I hope you’ll find time to go on despite your little one! Btw isn’t it a great year for babies??

By: Tai

Tai — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:58:26 +0000

Many thanks for this kind mention, Mandarine. And Aerophant’s sabbatical is finally ending! Ever forward, ever upward…

By: healingmagichands

healingmagichands — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:49:04 +0000

I am very flattered, and will begin thinking about my awards/ I am also missing Bloglily and hope she returns soon.

By: Emily Barton

Emily Barton — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:59:08 +0000

I should have remembered to use “modest” as one of those adjectives I used to describe you. I was checking your blog (and being very intimidated by its brilliance) well before you wrote that post. And I’m missing Bloglily, too.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:51:49 +0000

Flattered to be included on this lovely list - some of my favourites are here too!

Mandarine, when I return from New York, I promise to try to redo my “I Am From”. I need to get back on the podcast bandwagon.