The face behind the blog: Facibus On Blogging

David Airey has a share-the-link-love project: The Face Behind The Blog. It has four steps:

1st step

Post a short blog article that includes a photograph (or a series of photos) showing the face behind your blog. If you already show a photo somewhere on your site (such as in your about page), then make your post more interesting and choose a photo that’s not currently online.

2nd step

Include links to other people that have displayed a photo, or include their photos in your post, adding a reference. Here are the others who have participated so far:

David Airey :: Graphic Design
Gayla at Mom Gadget
Char at Essential Keystrokes
Paul at Reflections
Rob at 2Dolphins
Zep at The In-Sect

Ingo at Stixster
Stevie at Lost In Cyberspace
The Paper Bull at (oddly enough) The Paper Bull
Lisa Sabin-Wilson at Just A Girl In The World
Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com

Wendy Piersall at eMoms at Home
Dennis Bjørn Petersen at The Beta News
Randa Clay at Randa Clay Design
Drew McLellan at The Marketing Minute
Becky McCray at Small Biz Survival

Phil Gerbyshak at Make it Great!
Steve Woodruff at StickyFigure
Dave Olson at Live the GREAT life that you desire
Greg at Become a Remote Control SEO
Ariane Benefit at Neat Living Blog

Genesis at the At Home Mom Blog
Armen at iFFECT.NET
Mihaela Lica at Online Public Relations
Tara at Graphic Design Blog
Doris Chua at Home Office Women

Edward Mills at Evolving Times
Tony D. Clark at Success from the Nest
Jonathan-C Phillips at SmartWealthyRich
Karen at A Deaf Mom Shares Her World
Lisa Gates at intrinsic life design

Rammel Firdaus at rammelfirdaus.com
Carol at Pentimento
Adam Kayce at Monk at Work
Thomas at Technical Blogger
Tammy Lenski at I Can’t Say That!

Chris Brown at Branding & Marketing
Rory Sullivan at Hamelife
Derek Wong at Going The Wong Way
Embuck at embuck.com
Ms. Q at QMusings

Shelly Tucker at This Eclectic Life
Steve at Ramblings from the Marginalized
Troy Worman at on!blog
Lilith at Lilith’s Owl Nest
Revov at REVO-OVER

Karin at Stop/Start
Sha at Sha Money Maker dot com
Derrick Sorles at Life By Design
Ken Xu at Mysites Advisor dot com
Roberta at Roberta Ferguson

Donovan at Blog That Outside
Leanne Wildermuth at Artist by Nature
Ingrid at Through My Eyes
Don Lawson at Affiliate Watcher
The Giddy Tiger at Giddy Tigers

Mike Busson at Twenty Steps
Rosemarie at Miscellaneous Matters
Charity at Design Adaptations
Nancy at Erik Quinn: The Heart of a Family
Robyn McMaster at Brain Based Biz

Chris at Chris Hoyt
Faddy at Girl Next Door
Thess at In Nederland
Jean at A Great Pleasure
Suzie at 1Day@ATime

Jason at Blisslogs
Johnny at Really Smart Guy
Bob at BobMeetsWorld.com
Chin Nee at De ‘moments
Skipper at My Life Starts At Forty-Two

Seiche at Seiche
Leah at Leah’s Cafe
iRonnie at I Set No Corner

MikaMika at http://www.TextUnli.com

A link back to this post is much appreciated, to help create a more personal community!

3rd step

Tag as many others as you like in your post to spread the meme.

4th step

If you link back to me here and send me an email. I’ll add you to the list above. This isn’t absolutely necessary but it does help me to keep track of the collection (I have an idea or two for an ultimate blogger showcase).

Each person tagged should create their own post and repeat the process.

It sounds good to me :)

Step 1: here I am, in all my glory :)

andrew_boyd_150×150.jpg

Step 2: done, above. There is an updated batch of faces. It isn’t clear if David will be updating this list or not. If you join in, and don’t get a backlink from David, leave me a comment here and I will mention you in On Blogging. The love should continue to be shared regardless :)

Step 3: I’ve tagged Wendy and David as I read their blogs every day.

Step 4: …and sent David an email.

What do you think? Is it worth joining in from your blog? :)


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16 Responses to “The face behind the blog: Facibus On Blogging”


  1. 1 Dennis Bjørn Petersen (1 comments.)

    Thank you very much for the link love.

    Its great to see how popular the list has become :-)

  2. 2 David Airey :: Graphic Designer (1 comments.)

    Hi Andrew,

    First off, thanks very much for joining in, and second, great of you to keep the original meme rules (or guides, as rules is a bit strict) alive.

    I think it’s great seeing all the new faces and ‘meeting’ people I’d never have done otherwise.

    Best of luck in all you do.

  3. 3 AndrewBoyd (224 comments.)

    Hi Dennis,

    you are welcome :)

    Best regards, Andrew

  4. 4 AndrewBoyd (224 comments.)

    Hi David,

    I think that it is a worthy project - it would be good to one day organise all the photos into a big wall, perhaps we can indeed use the photos to create mosaic collages and use these in turn to create art. Maybe a peace sign or a heart made up of all the photos?

    I wonder if there is a mashup opportunity there for someone to support cause-based sites such that they could use a photocollage of their supporters as a form of petition? Picture this “This photocollage of a mother holding a child is composed of images of the 120,000 people who contributed to Make Poverty History”.

    Best regards, Andrew

  5. 5 Robyn (1 comments.)

    Hi Andrew, great to see who Facibus is. I find it interesting that the name of the blog matches this post so well!

  6. 6 AndrewBoyd (224 comments.)

    Hi Robyn,

    thank you for your comment.

    I hadn’t even noticed the title… thanks for the heads-up :)
    Facibus Reviews
    is one of my other blogs, how embarrassing :) I will change the title now.

    Best regards, Andrew

  7. 7 MIKA (1 comments.)

    hello! I also join this wonderful meme! :) Added you in my list. Please add me, too. :)

    MikaMika at http://www.TextUnli.com

    Have a wonderful day!

    Regards!

  8. 8 AndrewBoyd (224 comments.)

    Hi Mika,

    have done, happy to do so :)
    Good luck with it :)
    Best regards, Andrew

  9. 9 Sneezy Melon (3 comments.)

    Amazing Idea! This will surely create a new community of bloggers themselves…

  10. 10 AndrewBoyd (224 comments.)

    Hi Sneezy,

    thank you for your comment :)
    I think that it already has - I’ve received a lot of link love from this one post, and emails from participants - it has been worthwhile and I can recommend it to anyone.

    Best regards, Andrew

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