With all of the hoopla surrounding the TechCrunch 7 love-in August Capital Party, the photos, the hobnobbing, and all the seeing-and-beeing-seen, you can’t help but notice a distinct hierarchy in the blogosphere.

I mean, when you look at all of the photos, it really resembles a giant Hollywood style party – I half expected Entertainment Tonight to show up, with Mary Hart or Vanessa Minillo trying to grab 30 second sound bites about “What the Web2.0 Means To Them”.

“That”, you might say, “sure as hell sounds like sour grapes”.
But its not.

I also recognize that many or all of them have gotten to be where they are through a combination of sheer will, innovation (or mashing up), timing, a helluva lot of hard work none of us see, an ungodly amount of networking, and a whisper of luck.

For those of them that are bloggers, those A-listers they’ve been rewarded with a certain amount of power, influence, and credibility (while command eyeballs and traffic).

For everyone else — well, we’re still working our asses off. ;)

Take me for instance.

I’ll be the first one to admit there is nothing original about this blog. How many other tech and web2.0 related blogs are there? Probably enough to fill a Star Trek convention. But I’m pounding the blogosphere everyday blogging about stuff that I’m interested and have a genuine passion for.

And I guess a lot of us fill that boat.

So, as a brief aside, for all of us who wield absolutely NO power or influence — who struggle with a pagerank of zero, and whose “linkpopularity” is so laughably low we would love to be obscure because we border on the invisible, I raise my flagon to you, you blogging-to-the-bone D-listers, you.

But back to my rant: for me, the most frustrating part of being a D-List blogger (I hope I’m at least that), however, isn’t the lack of traffic, adsense dollars, or mentions in prominent blogs. It isn’t even the possibility of being invited to the TechCrunch-allapalooza … as part of the waitstaff.

Personally, its the lack of credibility.

“Sure”, you might ask, “what have you done to earn it?”

“Well”, I might rejoinder, “admittedly, not much”.

I just blog everyday. Sometimes twice. Sometimes even thrice.
But that’s about it.

I don’t do the mulit-post-comment-thing; nor, the submit-to-blog-networks-thing; nor even the buy-text-ads-so-I-can-get-links-thing.

Yes, I don’t know many important people in the blogosphere, and they don’t really know me.
Granted, that’s partly my fault — but I attribute my anti-social traits here to having a full time job.
Its a weak crutch, I know.

But the lack of credibility, and the “who the hell are you” factor, really hurt this week.

I was trying to bring honest attention to the controversy over at Digg with “Aliwood” — because I think it represents something really signficant in the posterchild of the Web2.0.

Sure enough, it got buried after a few days — although shout outs to: ziggyluvsu, robweber, and yodoasama, and everyone else at Digg for keeping it alive in some fashion.

I did end up sending messages to at least two A-listers who I have yet to hear back from.

I also am getting nothing back from Digg itself.

Nor, actually, the few “Alisons” who go to the United States Airforce Academy [who, incidentally, have hit this site a few times -- I know you're reading!], who’ve I’ve tried to contact over Facebook … to try and get her side of the story.

Nor, any real responses on DiggFans, who, as a community, I thought would know something about, or care about the issue.

Anyway, this “wall of silence” is fairly impenetrable … and it just goes to show how little pull a D-Lister has … even when there may be a legitimate issue worth checking out.

There’s a hierarchy, a pecking order, a clique system if you will, that exists within the blogosphere. Most of us don’t hang out with the cool “A-lister” crowd, yet — and we all have our reasons for aspiring to do so.

For the D-Lister crowd, its a bit of a hoe everyday — but I’m workin’ on it, and I’m lovin’ it.
I just wish I could get a civilized response every now and again when I ask a decent question.