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So Tom's been talking about me. Well, not exactly about me; inspired by me. That's nice.

There's a couple of things that trouble me: first, Tom seems combatative about this. How dare I, a mere weblogger of seven months standing, call myself a second generation blogger? I've just signed up with blogroots, which probably makes me sixth generation or something, but I'd say that there's a difference between all the early adopter types who know HTML and CSS and all manner of other impressive things like the back of their collective hand - broadly; (and I say this in a we're-not-worthy way) geeks, and people like me; we get technology, but we're not developers. I'm more interested in the content and the platform as a communication enabler than I am in the how-to. If I hadn't been able to go to Blogger and set it all up in ten minutes, I would have thought it was too hard. But Tom implies I'm third generation at best.

Oh, and Tom says "and don't be starting to fool yourself here - everyone was inspired by more than one weblogger"; maybe everyone was, but I know exactly who inspired me. Maybe not everyone, then, Tom.

And why does Tom call other people by their name, but calls me sashinka.blogspot.com? It's not like we don't know each other; we've met a couple of times, I think. Is it to point out that I'm still on the free blogspot domain (only because I don't know enough yet to move everything to www.sashinka.com)? Or to labour the generational difference? It's a little impersonal, at best, Tom.

Here's how I see it; maybe the "cool" period of blogging is over, and now that the world and her wife and your boss and your aunt and the bloke across the road are going to have a blog means it's more mainstream. It's inevitable; things that are basically good ideas grow. It doesn't make it less interesting; you're still an early-adopter. Don't panic.