Jon Swift was a classy guy
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
