Blogging must really be a powerful force if it's filtered down to me. I knew blogs existed, even seen a couple inadvertently, but to me they were the sort of things written by high school girls or the terminally nerdy, filled with things such as, "Joey and Carmella were at the mall. she was SOOO flaunting it in front of me all 'he's with me biatch.' carmella is such a slut. she's such a ho and someday joeys going see that and BEG me to take him back just so he can get away from her. SHES THE BIATCH u readin this ???!! YOUR THE BIATCH!!!"  (For the absolutely clueless among you, all grammatical errors were on purpose. Some people just don't get dialogue.)
    Then there are those who use blog software (or bulletin board messaging software) to lay out their entire site. Ugh. It sears the aesthetic senses. If you're like me, unhip to the blog vernacular, the site is an incomprehensible, innavigable mess. (Another problem with such sites, they tend not to tell you what they're about or what you're supposed to do at them. A confused mind clicks out. But I digress....)

 "Blogs -- They're Not Just For Teen Girls Anymore!"

    Blogs have become big. Professionals have blogs to dispense their views and opinions. Presidential candidates have blogs.** Some say blogs are the new personal home page. Who knew?

    I came to blogs by way of something called "Google Bombing." Google has more or less dropped my web site from their listings. I'm still indexed, but I don't come up when you search on my name. None of my sites do anymore. Personally I think the only whole site dedicated to a Gene Nash should not only come up when you search on "Gene Nash" but should probably be very near the top (or number one, as I had been for years). One day I started dropping -- 4, 13 -- then I was gone completely. Oh, I have theories as to why, but back to blogging. Enter the Google Bomb. I notice one of those 2 line blurbs at the bottom of CNN Headline News mentioning "google bombing." A short search engine trip later*** and I think, "Ah-ha, I'm back in business."
    The gist of google bombing is that Google's results are based partly on the text used to link to a site. Theoretically if enough sites used the text "Gene Nash" to link to my site, I would again make the list and hopefully rise back to the top. The primary and easiest way to do this? Blogging. A cabal of bloggers use their linking power to manipulate search engine results.

    So, here I am blogging and "Gene Nash" linking. It's a start. ****

    Yours,
    Gene Nash

    * the REAL Mr. Deeds, with Gary Cooper, not that garbage with Adam Sandler. I like Adam Sandler, but that was bad.
    ** Dean's site is as bloated as a Liberal budget, mainly because of that 30' long left-side bar. C'mon, Dean, be man! Write your own blog!
    *** Ironically the search engine I used to look up "google bomb" was Google itself.
    **** And no, this isn't the only blog I'm starting, and they will all link back to my pathetic little site.

    P.S. --- Don't you hate footnotes? What kind of pretentious S.O.B.'s use footnotes??