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An email I received out of the blue from Jon Swift one day:

Happy New Year and Congratulations Anyway

Dear Mr. Owens:
I want to wish you a very happy new year and congratulate you on your Weblog Award nomination despite your misgivings. You’ve done great work this year and you deserve acknowledgment for it, so there. When I was just starting out and not getting a lot of traffic, I got nominated for a Weblog Award and it brought me a lot of new readers and put me in touch with a lot of new bloggers. So whatever its flaws, I think the Weblog Awards help blogs reach people they might not ordinarily reach and that’s a good thing.

And thank you again for your contribution to my end-of-the-year roundup. I hope that, too, helps your work reach more readers.

I hope your 2009 is a good one.
Take care,
Jon Swift

Al Weisel, the real person behind the pseudonym of satirical blogger Jon Swift, has sadly passed away. I’ve exchanged many emails with Jon over the years and have collaborated with him on several projects. I’ve always wondered who he really was, but I’m sad to find out this way.

Here are some Bloggasm posts that have featured Swift:

Interview with Jon Swift

Where in the world is blogger Jon Swift? UPDATE: Possibly found?

The downside of the Googlebomb

Why doesn’t blogger Jon Swift support WGA writers?

Blogger’s pseudonym gets deleted from Facebook

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2. If you’re looking for more blogging from me, follow me on Twitter.

3. If you want to hire me for digital PR, online media consulting, or to report/write/blog, visit my “hire me” page.

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