I never take a moment to consider exactly who is going to read my blog when I create a new post for Nerdflood. Oftentimes, I don’t think about the fact that people beyond my close friends and family read this blog; and even my close friends and family don’t read it all that much (Mom? Mom, are you there? Hello, mom?)

But my morning blog stats check revealed that there are a few people not related to me (that I’m aware of anyways) that for some reason have decided to subscribe to this blog. One of those people is reknowned tech blogger Louis Gray (FriendFeed | Twitter).

Today Nerdflood made Louis’ list of “five obscure blogs that sparkle“. A couple of comments on this.

1) I’m obviously deeply honored by this. Louis is well-respected in the tech/social media blogging circles. His philosophy reminds me of my own ideals back when I was a webcomics blogger on the Evil Network: highlight the cool stuff; don’t tear anyone down.

2) I’m among great company. I’m not going to start listing them all because I’m going to miss someone whose blog I really enjoy and I’ll kick myself about it. But check out Franklin Pettit’s blog post about getting “Louis Grayed” along with me, and you’ll get a great sampling of the excellent Z-lister content out there.

3) Not only is Nerdflood “obscure”, it also “sparkles”. The same can be said about me (after I’ve had a chance to shower and down my first Mountain Dew of the morning, of course).

4) This is second time in just the past two months that Louis has highlighted a central Iowa blogger. Last month he shined a well-deserved light on LiveCrunch, a blog that comes out of Des Moines. Surely we are poised to take over the world.

I’ll try my hardest not to disappoint, though you may find yourself ignoring 4 out of every 5 blog posts I do. You might also noticed that I rather drastically altered my web surfing habits recently, so the focus of my content is likely to change. But I tell you this, regardless of what I talk about here, I will try my hardest to entertain and inform.

So, who wants to see a picture of my wife’s broken toe? Nah, I’ll save that for a later post.