Hello Mr. Huth

After yesterdays excitement, I e-mailed Mr. Huth:

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:46:00 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Rachel baynton" Add to Address Book
Subject: You and your shadow...
To: geofhuth@gmail.com

Dear Mr. Huth,
I am writing to apologize for my shameless theft from your blog, 'one million footnotes'. I can only say in my defense that, for someone at a loss for where to begin, you are an inspiration. I hope that my responses will live up to their source!
I stumbled across your blog by accident and fell for its non-linear story-telling, I thought that I'd try to pick up where you left off.
If you have a minute perhaps you would take a look at the start where I will endeavour to further explain myself.

With fondest regards,
Rachel Baynton

This grovelly but heartfelt message was replied to (two hours before I sent it?!) thusly:

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:46:40 -0500
From: "Geof Huth" Add to Address Book
To: "rachel baynton"
Subject: Re: You and your shadow...

Rachel,
No problem at all. I ran across your "Finish This" blog last night--and added a link to in from my "Other Footnoters" list. You'll note that your link is the only link that I decided deserved a footnote!
Also, my footnote from last night was a direct response to my running across your blog.
I come from an artistic tradition that promotes collaboration, so I look at this as a collaboration. In that vein, I have one suggestion: that the links back to my blog go back to the exact footnote, rather than the whole blog. This will throw in a bit of a sense of dislocation for the reader, but will also help those readers find exactly what they're responding to--assuming that they don't realize that the awkward black spaces in your footnotes are actually my own reprinted in black on black.
A nice--in the old--sense idea of yours. Good luck with this and tell me how things turn out in January.
Also, thanks for the link to the "Starting This" blog, which I had not discovered on my own!
Geof

What a lovely man! He looks upon this as a collaboration? Brilliant! So do I! And after this message, it is one, officially! We're agreed then. Very over-excited now, must take break...

I will take his advice and refine my links back to OMF so that it is clear which entry of his I am responding to. Was also pleased to note that the 'hidden' text is easily found by those looking for it and those not. I've also added a links column to my sidebar so that those stumbling across one site have a greater chance of finding the other.

No new entries in Hour:Minute but then, looking over previous entries, posting was sporadic and Alfr3do may not blog daily. I enjoy the variance in content/style/length in his posts and they would be great to respond to or maybe link with OMF posts. For now however, I will have to wait for his return.