HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY TO ME!
Yep, that's right. Today marks One Year since I opened the Neighborhood to visitors. Here, here & here are what I had to say in my first three posts on April 18, 2006.
Wow, I can't believe I've actually done this for a year, and I really can't believe that a small, but steady, group of people actually swing by every day to read what I have to say. If I can uncharacteristically leave out the snark & snarl for a second, that fact is incredibly flattering, and really makes me very happy. Like all bloggers, I'd expect, I had my fleeting dreams that the masses would come teeming in, poring over my words by the millions, making me the newest rival to Kos & Atrios and the gang. And those dreams were gone by week 2, as I realized it's hard to write something of quality every day, and harder to get people to care.
That said, like all bloggers, I'd also suspect, I feared that I'd write every day, and after a few months I'd have an audience of 3, each of whom swung by merely to keep me from growing despondent and slitting my wrists. And the fact that I was somehow able to create a forum that slid into the great grey-zone somewhere between between those two extremes is a fact I'll always be proud of.
Anyhow, enough about me. I really wanna thank all the regulars here. You know who you are. Keep on swinging by, and keep on commenting. I also know there are some regular lurkers, and I wanna thank them too. The idea that there are folks I don't even know who read me regularly is pretty cool. Join the commenting if you wish, or just keep on lurking. Either way.
Just keep coming by.
Wow, I can't believe I've actually done this for a year, and I really can't believe that a small, but steady, group of people actually swing by every day to read what I have to say. If I can uncharacteristically leave out the snark & snarl for a second, that fact is incredibly flattering, and really makes me very happy. Like all bloggers, I'd expect, I had my fleeting dreams that the masses would come teeming in, poring over my words by the millions, making me the newest rival to Kos & Atrios and the gang. And those dreams were gone by week 2, as I realized it's hard to write something of quality every day, and harder to get people to care.
That said, like all bloggers, I'd also suspect, I feared that I'd write every day, and after a few months I'd have an audience of 3, each of whom swung by merely to keep me from growing despondent and slitting my wrists. And the fact that I was somehow able to create a forum that slid into the great grey-zone somewhere between between those two extremes is a fact I'll always be proud of.
Anyhow, enough about me. I really wanna thank all the regulars here. You know who you are. Keep on swinging by, and keep on commenting. I also know there are some regular lurkers, and I wanna thank them too. The idea that there are folks I don't even know who read me regularly is pretty cool. Join the commenting if you wish, or just keep on lurking. Either way.
Just keep coming by.
Labels: This Year I Start Charging Admission, Visa and Mastercard Accepted
posted by Mike at 6:58 AM
15 Comments:
Congrats!
happy year thingie. . .
like all bloggers, I'd also suspect, I feared that I'd write every day, and after a few months I'd have an audience of 3, each of whom swung by merely to keep me from growing despondent and slitting my wrists.
Heh. As someone with 3 regular readers who comment and another 3 lurkers, maybe 4, I have to say, "Keep on bloggin'".
You write with the brilliance and confidence of a blog at least 3 years old--keep it up, Mike!
Yay for you! Congrats, really. It's a great neighborhood. One visit and I was hooked.
I'm glad to see daily posts, new job and all.
Here, have some cake.
Congrats! :)
Congratulations! You have more regular readers and commenters than me, and I've been slogging away at blogging for over 3 years, so you must be doing something right. Or I must be doing something wrong, but either way, you are a better man than I, and I'm not just saying that because I'm a woman.
Congrats.
I came for the Mets, and enjoyed the other stuff as well.
Here's to many more years in the Neighborhood.
Congrats to you Mike!
Happy Blogoversary! Here's to another year.
Congratulations, dude. Keep it up.
Congrats!
Thanks all.
Mike,
Congratulation on the anniversary. Sorry I missed it, but had a chance to get a colonoscopy yesterday and couldn’t say no to that. Ah, the joys of being over fifty.
Thanks, WFTA.
(And thanks for sharing that with us.)
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