Dear Helena,
Thank you so much for dropping by my blog, and for the sweet and wonderful comment. Every time I whine about getting "only" 15 comments or so, someone is apt to remind me that I'm pretty well known in the Xangasphere, and there are still lots of Xangans who average a comment count in the single digits, or even don't get comments at all.
I ran a writing group (back in the days before "featured questions" etc.) called "Internet Island" from 2005-2007 and one of the purposes of the group was to get Xangans to visit and get to know each other, but like almost all the blogrings and groups, those who posted entries rarely got around to visiting those who posted entries after theirs, so I always thought it was a failure, but it really was quite successful.
10 years. Wow. Then you've seen Xanga grow from a small community where everyone knew each other to one of the largest social networking/blogging sites on the internet, and then fade almost from sight as MySpace and Facebook became the "in" sites. Oh, and we can't forget Twitter.
I came onboard Xanga in 2004, when it was pretty popular, and really hard to maneuver. In time, my elaborate long winded and creative posts caught the eye of some of the "Xangalebrities" (they weren't called that then, of course) and I got to know a lot of people here. I recently cleaned up my friends list and got rid of 200 bloggers who either had stopped blogging, just never visited, or worse yet, constantly filled up my inbox with their posts and recommends and never visited. I don't miss getting rid of those 200 people, and it still seems I keep "collecting" friends.
Not bad for an old bald guy, eh?

Okay, I haven't even read your post yet. Now to write a proper comment.

Well, even though I don't think I 'know' you. Perhaps we have crossed paths in the Xangasphere. I like your choice as a comeback line, with a reference to the olden days. I'm currently enjoying 'Game of Thrones' on HBO. I love history, and the days of knights and their ladies fair are wonderful times about which to think. I also attend our SoCal Renaissance Faire frequently. It's the first and the largest in the country.

Welcome "back". And I hope to get to know you. A lot of my "friends/subscribers" have been "with me" for many years. I just replied to a "facebook friend" who commented rather cruelly about my entry that "aren't all the blogs failures on Xanga at this point in time?"  I said that some of us have developed our own communities across time and space and for us, there really isn't that much of a change. I blog on Xanga. I have blogged on Xanga nonstop (with the exception of my many "hiatuses" for seven years.

Cripes. That's a long time, ain't it.

Nice to "meet" you.

Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool