Since I've exhausted most of my Google Alerts for backlinks, I believe it's time to go through all the pingbacks I have on my blog. It actually serves several purposes for me, the least of which is pointing me to all the web awards I've received. I'm in the process of making a page for them and adding the awards as I go through the pingbacks and alerts.

I'm not going to be listing any pingbacks from splogs or questionable sources. In fact, I'll be deleting those as I spot them. I'm not going to ignore the Google Alerts either. I'm going to be combining them with the pingbacks and you'll just have to guess which ones are which. Without further ado:

• Sandee, the trickster at Comedy Plus, passed me more awards: The Good Buzzz Blog Award and the Cool and Crazy award. I think I might fill up my awards page with just HER awards!
• Liz, of the Successful Blog, gave me an official SOB badge. I'll have to display it as soon as I can figure out where I want it.
• K-intheHouse, while at home at ShanKri-la, mentioned my article on the TakeTV video player as part of his buzz in blogs post for December 16th. He'll probably fix it if he sees this, but it looks like he had a problem with "Unriwsted".
• An oldephartteintraining put out a late links list which included my blog, but with the anchor text for my "Big Dog!" post.
• Raymond, while entering stuff into his Commuter Chronicles, took a lesson from one of my posts and is promoting my blog and yours. Unfortunately, Technorati still won't allow more than 200 favorites per member, so I'll have wait until they fix that in order to add his blog as one of mine.
• Mitch, at Money News - My Financial History, included my blog as part of a list of 16 free blog reviews that will raise your presence and authority.
• The very first ping I received on this blog was from the Webgrrrl in response to my Z-List post. I think the responses on that post is what really got me interested in being interactive.
• Matthew of eJabs treated my blog as his first (and only from the looks of it) weekly blog in the spotlight and then later told me he loved me. I responded in kind with the message that I loved him too. That exchange drew a bit of attention on both blogs and if you read both blogs, you'll realize that neither of us is gay (unless gay means happy). Matthew took a stupid test while linking to the stupid test I took. It appears he's a whole lot smarter than I am.
• HMTKSteve, while posting more Ramblings from the Marginalized did an unsolicited review of Untwisted Vortex and linked to my blog plus five of my posts. To this day, I'm not sure if was intended as a positive or a negative review.
• I learned a valuable lesson about blogging early in the game. Whatever you write on a blog will be read by someone. That someone may post it on a social site like Digg where all of sudden, thousands of people are reading what you wrote. HMTKSteve did that with my "Downloading Pirated Anything Is NOT Illegal" article and it drew pings and comments from all over. I'm not going to list all those pingbacks because most of the people behind them will never return to read anything else. It's interesting to note that it's still the most read article on my blog today, which is amazing considering the fact that it was really nothing more than a rant I didn't expect anyone to read at all.