I don't know if the Guinness Book of World Records has one for the number of comments for a first time blog post. If they do, Bob Bly's first post just shattered it! He has 50 and counting! (Even if half of them are a conversation between Bob and Nick Usborne! Ha, ha!)

I jumped in to be #50, but due to the way the site has it timestamped, it looks like I'm number #48. But, I swear to you the #49 and #50 posts that follow were already there. Anyway. . .sour grapes on my part.

One thing that has me mystified (Bob too, for that matter) is B.L. Ochman's comment about his blog being "an advertisement." Don't get me wrong, I think highly of B.L., (I mean, I have her blooming book listed in the r-h column. Buy it, would ya? I need the revenue.) but I think she is just plain wrong in making that assertion. I don't believe Bob, or anyone else for that matter, expected his first post to garner the kind of response that it did.

I know he is a savvy marketer, but I also don't think he wrote that DM News article putting the negative spin on blogging just to create a lot of buzz, while all the while surreptitiously planning to launch a blog himself. If he did, well kudos to him. That was a smart move.

This is beginning to sound like a Gawkeresque gossip blog, something I never intentioned it to be. (Though I can see a "Being John Malcovich" style movie being made from this. Here's the title: Bob Bly Blogs. Get the Cohen brothers to direct it.)

If nothing else, Bob has learned one quintessential lesson about the power of blogs. . .they are about engendering conversation. Viva la Blog!