I’ve been oh so close to fame and fortune as a result of the blog monkey on my back…

But, in the past, I’ve just been a blurred image on the edges.

I was quoted as “Vermonter” in a Cathy Resmer article about Jerome Armstrong in Seven Days.

I was (maybe, if I really stretch it) referenced as part of a group of “tech-savvy volunteers” for Scudder’s campaign in a front page Burlington Free Press article on political blogs.

I was one of the “bloggers” referred to in an editorial in the Free Press about the Dunne/Tracy online Lt. Guv debate.

And an inch of my face made it onto the WPTZ coverage of that debate.

But, all that has changed.

I am on the map in Shay Totten’s long article, “Blogger breakthrough: Vermont’s net-savvy citizens go from obscure to mainstream,” on Julie Waters and her recent exposure of plagiarism on Martha Rainville’s website that appeared on the cover of the Vermont Guardian’s latest print edition.

Way, way at the bottom, in the “Getting respect” section, but still, I have arrived.