---
title: "Blog Aid Successful"
date: 2004-11-19
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2004"
    url: "/tag/2004.md"
---

# Blog Aid Successful

To wrap up what has been a busy week, yesterday I finally got some momentum going in the blogosphere with the [O’Reilly interview](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045206/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002434.php). Thanks to [Jason Kottke](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045206/http://www.kottke.org/remainder/04/11/6958.html), [Robert Scoble](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045206/http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/11/18.html#a8666), [Phil Pearson](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045206/http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/2004/11/18/#200411181) (btw welcome back Phil!), [Lucas Gonze](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045206/http://gonze.com/weblog/story/readwrite) and **all the others** who kindly linked to it.

What happened was, I published Part 1 of the interview first thing Monday morning (US time). But it was slow to take off and by mid-week I was a bit concerned that no web connectors would notice it. So I launched a [Band Aid](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045206/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Aid_%28band%29)-like appeal for links and eventually some blog stars kindly donated their attention.

Wouldn’t it be cool to have a regular “Blog Aid” thing, where A-Listers devoted say 1 day a month to feed link-hungry C-Listers? It’s the least they could do.

I’m joking!

Next week I will take it easy and blog in my pyjamas, as per [Robert’s suggestion](https://web.archive.org/web/20050213045206/http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/11/18.html#a8666) 🙂 Just as well I’m not a videoblogger.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002473.php))*