BW Media Spotlight

Years ago, when I had a stronger readership and most of the blogs I followed were active, I was nominated for a “Liebster Award“. It’s not an official award from any particular organization. It was just a way for bloggers to promote fellow bloggers. Nowadays, as equipment has become cheaper and more people make videos for YouTube than write for solo websites, or so it feels (and I wouldn’t mind getting back to the occasional video myself), I don’t have a strong a readership as I used to. A couple of boosts by Instapundit only helped for a short time, as I expected it too. I still have people who show up, but I’m half of what I was before the forced hiatus in 2016, where I probably lost most of my readership, and the recent attempts to stay out of the culture war as it keeps forcing itself into storytelling, despite being only one of the many problems with storytelling today and the types of stories I tend to follow (sci-fi superhero stuff). This will become more important later on.

What’s important for the intro is that the independent blogger isn’t dead, just most of the sites I used to follow. Some of us still are out there posting stuff and reading others’ work. For example, novelist Caroline Furlong of A Song Of Joy enjoys myself enough to like most to all of my articles and I have also used a few of hers for the Saturday article link. She also nominated me for a Sunshine Blogger Award. That was nice of her. Like the Liebster, the Sunshine Blogger Award rules are answer a series of questions provided by the nominator and then charging 11 other sites to answer your questions, but it can’t include the blogger who nominated you. Which seriously reduces my nominations since most of the sites I follow these days are multi-contributor news and commentary sites. Who do I nominate on Bleeding Fool or Geeks & Gamers?

While I figure out a workaround, I have below the 11 questions Caroline has asked of me and her other nominations. You can read her responses to her own nominee’s questions at the link in the previous paragraph. Here are my responses to her questions of me. To make up for the limited nominations, I’m going to ramble a bit, and it seems I’ve broken my 2000 limit more than I’d like. She’s been here long enough to be used to that, so blame her. After all, I started this site to talk about the stuff I’m really into that nobody else I know in friends or family think about in the same way I do, and hoping to get into discussions with others who think the same way. It doesn’t seem to happen if you see how blank most of my comments are, which is also why I want to get back to videos and try livestreaming again. Also, go read the rest of her site after you see her own Q&A session. It opens in a new tab so you don’t have to scramble back here.

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