That's SO Meta.

So, just when I thought I would die of an overdose of META from looking into the mirror-within-the-mirror of bloggers talking about blogging, with the intention of well...blogging about it, I lucked onto Adam Greenfield. 

Interviewed by Rebecca Blood for her blog, Rebecca's Pocket, (Bloggers on Blogging, December 2005) Greenfield is like a breath of fresh air:

“ My brain is just one big mulch of influences all kind of simmering and swapping plasmids and whatnot. ”

Dang, Adam! I know how that feels. Okay, not really. But you sound smart, or crazy, and either way at least you were INTERESTING. 

Reading through the interviews of various successful bloggers, wondering if I'd have a thing to say about what they have to say about themselves, I got kind of...bored. Everyone seems to have a lot to say, and it isn't always all that fascinating. That is the bad part about the blogosphere; it's like shopping at the discount store. There's a lot of cheap stuff, but if you look for it something more valuable turns up.   

So, I looked Adam up, and guess what? It turns out, besides giving a reasonably interesting interview, he has actually done pretty well for himself. 

Greenfield initially got into blogging for the cool of it all (and probably money, too.) He claims he started out trying to write with "A Voice;" but quickly settled into actually developing one that doesn't sound like he's trying too hard. Apparently authenticity won out over coolness. (Which in the end made him cool after all.) 

To share just a bit of Greenfield's back-in-the-day bloggy-ness, here is an excerpt from Blood's interview, wherein Greenfield does that thing bloggers do a lot: he shares some links to other blogs. (Three out of four of the links seem to work as originally intended.)

     "What are three four blogs you think deserve wider recognition, and why?"

     "My friend Jamie's site, Thanksgiving Is Ruined, is like a port directly from his very unusual mind to Blogspot. It's, uh, notable. Jan Chipchase's Future Perfect deserves the widest possible exposure. Miss Representation is the bellow of love and rage from every true New Yorker's secret heart. Last year I called angermann2 "mindf***ing, cryptic," and I see no reason to retract that characterization. (It's a compliment, in case you were wondering.)"

Here's to you, Adam, and to the rest of your blogging kind for paving the way toward college classes that ask students to blog about bloggers.