I'm going to designate Sunday, April 12 as "Small Blog Appreciation Day." I started TYWKIWDBI in December of 2007, and it wasn't until April 12, 2008 that someone finally linked to me; that gave me a Technorati authority of 1 (corresponding to a rank of about 3,000,000), and the sense of actually having a place in the blogosphere.
During this past year as the links have accumulated, I've kept track of each and every one, going to the linking site to see what the blog is like and adding quite a few to my folders of blogs to monitor. Most of the early links came from very small blogs (half of them with authorities <20).
Now in an effort to acknowledge those early links, I'd like to create a post that includes a list of blogs that have linked to TYWKIWDBI. If you were one of those bloggers and would like to participate (it's voluntary; I won't list anyone who doesn't request such), just go to the Comments section for this post, and write -
I would expect that probably a few dozen of you will respond, and I'll then compile the data into a list sort of like the list I made of entries for the Weblog Awards. The idea isn't so much to get you a link to your blog as it is to put your blog out where a few thousand TYWKIWDBI visitors can at least see the name and summary. Based on the (nonscientific) theory that people who like the same things might like one another, you might get a few dozen hits, and perhaps a handful of regular visitors.