1) I wonder if those pictures which are definitely not Kottke get an automatic zero, or if instead users assign a degree of “Kottkeness,” however they define that, to the person photographed. Was that what was intended? Is it what people will do? Nevertheless, it might be interesting to see where other web-celebs fall on the scale. I, for instance, would give some people 11’s and above, seeing as my definition of “Kottkeness”* is roughly analagous to “person who has done something[s] cool for the web that you would also like to [bleep].”
2) My, but he’s a quick one. One can just imagine a script tied into the Blogger backend that scans the bodies of blog posts and sends an alert to his pager when it encounters “Kottke.” Hell, I would do it, if I could. (Or, just maybe, Neale might have done the polite thing and run it by him first. Stranger things have happened.)
* I tried, but I just can’t force myself to remove those quote marks.