BlogSecretParticipants
Welcome to BlogSecret! The blogging exercise where you write a secret and have it posted anonymously on someone else’s blog. For my first foray into this kind of project, I managed to round up 79 bloggers. Yes, that’s right, almost 80 bloggers. And I can guarantee I hadn’t heard of half of the blogs prior to this here experiment. So, THANK YOU for the power of social networking and word of mouth!
Each one of the bloggers listed below deserves accolades. It is said (through the results of lots of research) that the simple act of writing about a secret is highly cathartic and has been found to have genuine health impacts up to several months later. But, what the research doesn’t say is it takes courage, lots and lots of courage to reveal something you’ve held close to your heart. While I haven’t had the opportunity to read all of the submissions, I can tell you people were honest with their secrets. There are some dark truths to be told and I hope you’ll take into consideration how brave each of these bloggers is for talking about something they otherwise might not.
So, without further ado, let me share with yiour our blogger participant list (in alphabetical order) … please let me know if any of the links fail to work.
& That’s the Way Life Goes
… Because I Like Waffles and Blethers
10-eleven
A Very Merry Un-Birthday
Bad Mutha Fudruckers
Behind These Hazel Eyes
Busty Satan, No Blue Dress
Chances are I’m Going to Hell for This
Classy, not Trashy
Cleveland’s a Plum
Coming Up Roses
Cusp of Normal
Dan Mega
Desi’s Sense of Self
Don’t Call Me Kathleen
Endless Randomness
Enough About You
Expensive Mistakes and Cheap Thrills
Film, Tape and Steel Strings
Fluttering Butterflies
Free & Flawed
Hijinks Ensued
Holly Normania
Hope Dies Last
If Music Be, Then I Am
Innocents and Accidents, Hints and Allegations
It’s Alright Ma, I’m Only Blogging
It’s Like I’m … Mmmagic
Juggling Scarves
Just a Small Town Girl
Kyla Bea
La Belle Ecrivaine
Life According to Mel Heth
Life in Development
Life in the Left Lane
Life, Liberty & Pursuit of Your Boyfriend
Lily Speak
Little Spoon
Live. Laugh. Hope. Love
Long Red Cape
Long Winded and Proud
Marie’s Blog Cafe
Morphine Breath
Musings Graces and Fate
My Everyday Soap (Opera!)
My Thoughtful Spot
No Matter How It Starts
No Ordinary Roller Coaster
Not So Noble
Of Radio Dials and Knitting Needles
Oh, the Possibilities!
Oopsy… Was That Me?
Our Little Apartment
Peas N’ Luv
Perks of Being a Jap
Ramble Ramble
Ramblings of a Semi-Literate Mind
Randomness Infinite…
Rosalicious
Skrinkeringhearts
Smell the Glove
Snapshot Chicago
SoMi
Strange Musings of a Distracted Spunk
Teality
The Art of Overthinking
the brain
The Erin Experiment
The Hotch Potchery
The Odyssey Years
The Professional Student
Then He Whispered I Love You
This Is Not the Life I Ordered
This Reading is Manic
Throwing Frogs at the Wall
Traveling Chica
Walking Through the Rain
Wee Travellings
With Rainbows on My Feet
November 18th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Nilsa, thanks so much for organizing this. It was such a treat to write about something that had really been bothering me. I bow down to your organization skills AND to your linking prowess.
November 18th, 2008 at 6:11 am
And here we are…
I feel like I need to click on every one of them to show them the attention they deserve.
Thank you!!
November 18th, 2008 at 6:11 am
And here we are…
I feel like I need to click on every one of them to show them the attention they deserve.
Thank you!!
November 18th, 2008 at 6:40 am
This was a great idea… I have only read a couple of the BlogSecrets so far -- I didn’t realize how powerful they would be. I commend all those who participated for sharing your secrets -- I just hope I have enough time to comment on each of your posts!
November 18th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Yay! Thanks for organising this! I’m so glad I came across it. :)
November 18th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Yay! Thanks for organising this! I’m so glad I came across it. :)
November 18th, 2008 at 7:25 am
You so rock my world!
November 18th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Wow, 79 participants. I got a lot of reading to do =P
Thanks for all your hard work.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Wow, 79 participants. I got a lot of reading to do =P
Thanks for all your hard work.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Nilsa, you’re a star for doing this and I can’t wait to read all the entries tonight when I get home from work
November 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Now that the first round is done, I have a suggestion for the next time -- allow hosting-only and writing-only blogs.
By doing this, the ability to match post to writer would be rendered much harder, as only a list of hosting blogs would be published (which would then not be a complete set of writers). The best that would then be possible would be to say that a post was not written by any of the hosting blogs (since formal author matching is inexact).
November 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Now that the first round is done, I have a suggestion for the next time -- allow hosting-only and writing-only blogs.
By doing this, the ability to match post to writer would be rendered much harder, as only a list of hosting blogs would be published (which would then not be a complete set of writers). The best that would then be possible would be to say that a post was not written by any of the hosting blogs (since formal author matching is inexact).
November 18th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Yes — thank you for organizing this!!! I almost want to reveal my own secret on my own blog now….much, much later of course!
November 18th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Thank you so much Nilsa! This was so therapeutic!
November 18th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
this is so neat. when it comes to round two I want to participate, this is great idea
November 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Good job miss. :)
November 18th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
nice job with whipping this all up lady! and thank you:)
November 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Thanks sooo much for the great job in organising this! You’re so awesome! :-)
November 18th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I didn’t participate but you did a great job. I’ve enjoyed reading them.
November 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
I am loving that I have somany secrets to read today, especially since it’s a slow day inthe office. Once again, thank you for organizing this!
PS: Bad Mother Fudruckers (5th down) does not seem to exist.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Nilsa -- this is seriously fun. Thanks again!
November 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Nilsa,
I know this too a lot of work. I figured a decent amount of people would volunteer to do it, but not nearly this many.
Again, thank you for giving all of us who participated a voice. I can’t believe how many people actually share secrets that I didn’t even disclose! It makes me feel not alone.
Also, thank you for not giving up as the going got tough! :)
THANK YOU!
November 18th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Thanks for doing this Nilsa!!
I just need to squeeze in my work into my blog reading today. ;)
November 18th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Thanks for working on this and letting us all air it out!
Brava girl!
November 18th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
i didn't have the time to participate, but i want to congratulate you on doing such a wicked job organizing all this.
& now i'm off to read!!
November 18th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
It’s almost too easy to figure out who some of these belong to. Ack!
November 18th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
This was amazing and I’m hoping to read every single blog secret!
November 18th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Nilsa you did an amazing job organizing this--THANK YOU! I cannot wait to start going thru them ALL, so many brave bloggers who shared their secrets.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Nilsa, this is awesome. I am having a hell of a time working my way through all of the posts, but I will get there! And I’m enjoying it so much. Just as I’m enjoying having my secret out there.
November 18th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
I think this is great. I am not ready to share my secret because the person the secret is about, reads my blog daily… and it is a VERY BIG secret. I’m not ready to tell. :(
November 18th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
thanks for organizing this it was really awesome!
November 18th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I can’t believe you organized all this. From now on you are my go-to-gal when I need to plan for something.
November 18th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I can’t believe you organized all this. From now on you are my go-to-gal when I need to plan for something.
November 18th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Thanks for organizing this… I have been reading all day long (through out the day) and it is amazing. Plus, I have already subscribed to many of the blogs listed… who knew something like this would expand my reading so much! Thanks again!
November 18th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I didn’t participate in it, but it was a wonderful idea and very well executed!!! The posts were all individually great. Thanks (again) Nilsa for being such an inspiring blogger!!
November 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
PS Maybe this should be an annual tradition???
November 19th, 2008 at 12:10 am
i love you for doing this.
thanks so much nilsa!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:18 am
OOOOH I wish I had known about this sooner!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Nilsa, this is amazing. I feel like I am reading some really juicy book clicking through all of the links!!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Nilsa, this is amazing. I feel like I am reading some really juicy book clicking through all of the links!!
November 19th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Thanks for putting this together, Nilsa. I was swamped all day today, but am sitting down now for a couple of hours of reading. I think it’s wonderful how many people shared their stories.
November 19th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Thank you, Nilsa! This was not only cathartic, but it was an amazing experience reading what other bloggers had to say, seeing some of the same experiences and realizing how much we all might have in common. Not to mention, I got exposed to really great blogs I would’ve otherwise never found! We should really do this again sometime!!!
November 19th, 2008 at 2:14 am
great job with blogsecret! I read every. single. one.
they made my day soooooo much better at my thankless job. thank you!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Congrats on putting all of this together!
November 19th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Not only did I love writing my secret (so liberating!), I also loved not working at all today as I made my way through all the others!
Can’t thank you enough for putting this together Nilsa!
November 19th, 2008 at 8:01 am
How much do I have to pay you to give me a master list of the blogs and the authors? Maybe just a few of the authors? I like much of what I read and would love to read their real blogs. I’m also very nosy so this has been a fun day of blog reading.
Yes, I was kidding about paying for a list. I’m so close to putting the names of the bloggers in Column A and then drawing lines to their posts in Column B.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
What an incredible day…I’m actually emotionally drained from it all but in a really, really good way.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
I admire everyone who posted a secret! I have only been able to read a few so far but I am blown away! You guys are awesome! I hope to be able to participate next time =)
November 20th, 2008 at 2:42 am
What a great idea! Let me know if you need more participants. Well done!
November 20th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
You did a wonderful job organizing this and it was such a great idea! I’m sad I didn’t get to participate but I’m planning on reading every single secret and if you ever decide to do it again then I will be so in. Congrats on a great job! :)
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:59 am
I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to
say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Sarah
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