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(Dear Blog, I suck.) Leave it to me, the habitual blog neglecter to write a New Year’s entry 11 weeks late. Oh Merciful Zeus. My sister warned me that if I continued to churn out link love / self-love promos, she’d stop reading my blog. Next, a friend complained, “You used to blog about sexy food… sort of. Now, it’s a blog about a cat.” (Ah, mon ami. Any day now, I’ll be blogging about cat food. Or sexy cat food. Or The Effects of Sub-Violet Light Spectrum Deprivation on the Development of Fruit Flies. But you’d still read my science experiment.) And so I return to the science fair to observe a blog milestone (2222+ comments) and to fulfill a blog meme tag. Meme tag virgin no more. I fended off that growing tag list since 2006, but today I succumbed to Momentary Evil Meme Effect.

After this mile high entry, my sis will probably stop reading my blog. I’ve been away from my blog for so long that I feel like… reintroducing myself. Hi? I’m going to run a “Max the Lolcat Photo Caption Contest”. Come back for details.

90-9-1 in the title refers to the 90-9-1 rule in Jakob Nielsen’s scientific research which found: “In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.” Ah, that explains why I can have 900+ subscribers and each post gets only about 20 to 60 comments. No… I still don’t get it. Gah… math.

The 2,222th comment was hollered by one of my regular readers, Fendi whose blog is all about his Fabulous, Fashionable, Fearless Fendi self, striking a pose and giving good Face. (What?! I can borrow from a Madonna song if I want to… Hmm… I could’ve titled this entry, “Like A Meme Virgin, Touched 591 Times”.) Mr. Fendi’s name naturally lends itself to The Name Game song: Fendi, Fendi, bo-bendi; Banana-fana fo-endi; Fee-fi-mo-mendi; Fendi! (Repeat 3x. See? Rolls off the tongue.) Fendi said hello on my previous last entry 6 times between Feb. 14 up to today. Not surprisingly, he’s also the last commenter (No. 2229), before I hit Publish button for this entry. Mr. Fendi, I hear you loud and clear.

Special shout-outs to Ann (who threatened to pester me for updates), Paolo, Cecile aka “C5”, and Lil who commented, “I’d reckon you’d make a great sales blogger — you’d do it with the same sort of dignity that escorts do. You can be both empowering and a ho.” Bwahahaha!

I always said that if I ever did a meme, I’d totally make it worth my pain time. For the record, I do NOT hate blog meme tags, despite the fact that they can be both a form of flattery… and ahem, a curse. Nota bene, if you tagged my blog’s lazy ass, rest assured (or not) that I’ll definitely do ‘em… some day. Time moves s-s-slowly in my blog, so if you tagged me in 2006, the tag will eventually pop up in my blog in… 2008. I maintain a big to-do list. Yes, I suck.

The tag I have chosen to do first was assigned by a blogger who goes by the moniker, “Pusa”, the Filipino word for “cat”. Uh-huh. I’m not exactly sure what I wrote to deserve the Sexy Blogger Award (coz mentioning the word “porn” every so often doesn’t count) and Beautiful Blogger Award. But… thanks.

And the WICKED PART of this post? I tag… y’all!!! EVERYONE who’s left a comment on my blog (minus spammers and pingbacks/trackbacks). Statistics: 2,229 comments (including 54 by me) for 93 posts in 1.5 years (not including this entry), 591 commenters (not including myself), and 900+ feed subscribers.

I used a couple of nifty WordPress plugins in combination to help me to compile a huge list (Top Commentators and Broken Link Checker) along with some good old fashioned manual labour for checking quality. Doing this lengthy exercise helped me to rethink my overly generous comments policy of removing nofollow on all author links in comments, which attracted a lot of spammers and overly aggressive SEO types. From now on, if you’ve left 10 comments, the NoFollow Free plugin I installed will automatically remove nofollow tag in all your comments. It’s like getting 10+ free backlinks from me, so if you have a Google PR < 4 (my PR = 4), those links might boost your PR.

But after reading this, if you think I only care about “quantity”, you’d be wrong. The list helps me to determine who’s reading my blog and to focus my gaze on them. I sometimes follow those who follow me (even during my absences).

Go forth, Sexify, Beautify & Justify My Love! But if you don’t want to TAG OTHERS, just consider this a thank-you. 591 TAGGED (96% personal blogs).

[ UPDATE May 6, 2008: Sorry... I decided to trim the list to the Top 100 only. ]

1. Evilgenius (65) — My good pal who topped my previous milestone list, too
2. fruity (54) — ME! Sorry, but I do try to return comments via YOUR blog
3. Jude (50) — A blog muse who you can blame for 5% of the crap in here
4. Fendi (39) — Sitting pretty at No. 4
5. Ann (36) — Also sitting pretty at No. 5
6. Jigs (34)
7. Evil Twin (33) - Just plain sitting evil at Lucky No. 7 (thank you)
8. Jim (33)
9. Chase (33)
10. Culture Shiok! (33)
11. Alma (31)
12. Em (29)
13. Kaitlin (kaitsessions.blogspot.com) (29)
14. Zerovoltage (29)
15. Joana (28)
16. Shari (27)
17. Tina (angelblush.net) (26)
18. Paulie (25)
19. Juice (24)
20. Nan (23)
21. Lil (23)
22. Pedro (22)
23. Mari (22)
24. Sash aka Farm Boy (19)
25. Jhed (19)
26. Hodges (18)
27. Leah (16)
28. Cole (16)
29. Valerie (15) —
30. Julie (15)
31. Lexie (15)
32. Mitsuru (15)
33. Lei (15)
34. JJ (formerly of messagesendingfailed.blogspot.com) (14)
35. Paddy (13)
36. Jaypee (13)
37. Alternati (13)
38. Paolomendoza (13)
39. Joyfulchicken (12)
40. Yer Pal (11)
41. Lisa (11)
42. Amy (formerly of amy.sweetangelweb.com) (11)
43. Jun.anteola (11)
44. Marni (11)
45. C5 (11)
46. Anna (anna.boscardin.org) (10)
47. Aravis (10)
48. Rad (10)
49. Dessert Queen (9) — You suck. I quote Britney Spears: “Gimme More”:D
50. Angelica (9)
51. Nix (9)
52. Kevin (9)
53. Iva (8)
54. Kofi (8)
55. Han (8)
56. Christian (8)
57. Bluepanjeet (8)
58. Fatima (8)
59. Anne (7)
60. Deanna (7)
61. Melanie (7)
62. Tara (7)
63. Janelle (7)
64. Euri (7)
65. Kubi (7)
66. Arlo (7)
67. Dan Hellbound (7)
68. Pusa (7)
69. Pinoy United (7)
70. Exene (7)
71. Kimba (6)
72. Jam (6)
73. Kristie (6)
74. Christine (6)
75. Irina (6)
76. Alistair (formerly of freshfixture.net) (6)
77. Emily (6)
78. Tina (www.refineme.org) (6)
79. Esther (formerly of bonsai.charismatic-insanity.net) (6)
80. SELaplana (6)
81. Janette Toral (6)
82. Joni (6)
83. AnitoKid (6)
84. Gean (6)
85. Agent Grey (6)
86. Jake The Miserable (6)
87. GYK (6)
88. Ami (6)
89. Superstealthy (5)
90. Zalette (formerly of zalette.simply-precious.net) (5)
91. P365D (5)
92. Sai (5)
93. Raymond (5)
94. Mika (5)
95. Grace (neonscent.com) (5)
96. Nina (5)
97. Corinne (5)
98. Irene (5)
99. Talksmart (5)
100. Reyna Elena (5)

Lastly, for those among you who celebrate Easter, I wish you a Happy Easter! For those who don’t… my Aunt Esther wishes you a very Happy Esther!

Adieu,

Putting the evil fruity Me in MeMe

P.S. The 3 orange stickers on poor Max’s head are real, not Photoshopped. DON’T WASTE TIME SPAMMING ME COZ I MODERATE ALL COMMENTS.

I “cleaned house”. Sorry, but I dislike promoting broken links, abandoned sites, splogs, blogs with comments disabled, and most e-commerce sites…