Amitai Givertz’s Recruitomatic Blog

In a comment made by Yvonne LaRose – who gives career and executive recruiting advice on her splendid site – she asks who came up with the idea of an icon for the Blog Swap.

Using an icon or logo for the Blog Swap bloggers was not my idea. However, I believe that I did invent the term “blog-bling” used in my post Spin the Bottle. The term describes the use of a (prized) icon to adorn one’s blog and to authenticate a claim to blogebrity status. In my post, I linked to Blogebrity.com which makes blog-bling available for their list of celebs. I am sure that my references to blog-bling had no bearing on the decision to revisit a means of letting those of you not included in the Blog Swap know that you are among a group of, well, elite bloggers.

My mother used to say: “The true test of a good idea is the number of people who have the same idea independently of you.“ For the record: my mother invented maternal love and my father invented Duraglit. Neither was ever credited for their remarkable contributions to humanity, even to the extent that they themselves did not refute the widely held opinion – among family at least – that I was a self-centered bastard. Herein are my two primary motives for claiming the term blog-bling as my very own creation.

As a part of my overall strategy for promoting my own blogebrity status, I will be adding blog-bling on Wikipedia with a link back to this very page. That way Mother, Father and their favorite son can be memorialized long after the bling has blong.  Also, I will be applying to be considered for inclusion to Blogebrity.com’s “A list.” That, too is, I believe, my birthright.

Please, if you can find an example or the reference to the use of the term “blog-bling” in any publication prior to my own, would you be nice enough to reply to this post and let me know? That way, anyone who had the same idea, independently of me, can be tracked down and scrutinized appropriately.

Thank you for your continued support and for reading my blog. For those of you who missed it, here is this week’s most read post: Possibility Recruiting.