Anniversary Cornucopia
Back in August of last year, I started a feature called "Anniversary Archives," wherein I re-published posts from earlier years that originally appeared on that date. It was an interesting exercise, but I only got three of them up before I went on vacation.
Then I pulled one of my disappearing acts, publishing only a bare handful of posts in the ensuing months. The Anniversary Archives idea was completely forgotten.
But now that I'm trying to make another return, I'd like to resurrect the feature. I was scouring around through old stuff, and somehow--I have no idea how--I landed on this page from Jeneane's archives.
It has no relevance to today's date, but I find it to be a gem. So I've decided to use it as my first piece in the re-opening of my Anniversary Archives feature. While not related to today's date, it's about a whole host of blog anniversaries--a compilation of opening posts from a number of exemplary blogs. Very much worth republishing, imho.
Many thanks to Jeneane for these great links.Read and enjoy!
This is by no means a complete list of my classmates/inspirations/co-conspirators, and yet, when I started snooping around, I did find enough "first posts" to warrant a celebratory yeeehaw! We've come a long way, baby....
Fishrush's Hello World: September 25, 1952 (ROTFL)
xian's Breathing Room: October 30, 1997
Lisa Williams' Cadence 90: May 31, 2000
Chris Locke's All Noise: August 5, 2000
Marek J's Soapbox: August 5, 2000
Brooke's Rivervision: November 7, 2000
Dean Landsman's DeanLand: December 17, 2000
Deb Gussman's Distracted: February 27, 2001
Michael O'Connor Clarke: March 1, 2001
Shelley Powers' BurningBird: [[April 5, 2001, after lurking for a year. Shelley's first post was on a Userland Manila site and has since disappeared. Conspiracy? TAHDW? You be the judge. Shelley has special dispensation because she is my idol. She's the only first post I'll include without a link.]]
Marc's Nexistepas: October 8, 2001
Gonzo Engaged: October 14, 2001
George Sessum's Musick: October 23, 2001
Jeneane Sessum's Allied: November 4, 2001
Gaspar Torriero: November 7, 2001
Kevin Marks Epeus' epigone: November 7, 2001
Gary Turner's* MLOD: November 14, 2001 (Gary Turner's "Inturnernet News" blog dates back to 1999.)
David Weinberger's JOHO: November 15, 2001*. (*JOHO was started in 1999, and after a two-year hiatus, re-emerged.)
Denise Howell's Bag n Baggage: November 28, 2001
Elaine's Kalilily: November 29, 2001
Jennifer Balderama's Nonsense Verse: December 7, 2001
Frank Paynter's Sandhill Trek: January 5, 2002
Halley's Commentsans: January 10, 2002
Mike Golby: Jan 11, 2002
AKMA: January 23, 2002
Tom Shugart's Insiteview: Feburary 21, 2002
Doug's The Dynamic Drivel: March 28, 2002
Jonathon Mays' Stretching Thought: April 16, 2002
Liz Lawley's Mamamusings October 22, 2002 (happy first birthday, Liz!)
Back in August of last year, I started a feature called "Anniversary Archives," wherein I re-published posts from earlier years that originally appeared on that date. It was an interesting exercise, but I only got three of them up before I went on vacation.
Then I pulled one of my disappearing acts, publishing only a bare handful of posts in the ensuing months. The Anniversary Archives idea was completely forgotten.
But now that I'm trying to make another return, I'd like to resurrect the feature. I was scouring around through old stuff, and somehow--I have no idea how--I landed on this page from Jeneane's archives.
It has no relevance to today's date, but I find it to be a gem. So I've decided to use it as my first piece in the re-opening of my Anniversary Archives feature. While not related to today's date, it's about a whole host of blog anniversaries--a compilation of opening posts from a number of exemplary blogs. Very much worth republishing, imho.
Many thanks to Jeneane for these great links.Read and enjoy!
This is by no means a complete list of my classmates/inspirations/co-conspirators, and yet, when I started snooping around, I did find enough "first posts" to warrant a celebratory yeeehaw! We've come a long way, baby....
Fishrush's Hello World: September 25, 1952 (ROTFL)
xian's Breathing Room: October 30, 1997
Lisa Williams' Cadence 90: May 31, 2000
Chris Locke's All Noise: August 5, 2000
Marek J's Soapbox: August 5, 2000
Brooke's Rivervision: November 7, 2000
Dean Landsman's DeanLand: December 17, 2000
Deb Gussman's Distracted: February 27, 2001
Michael O'Connor Clarke: March 1, 2001
Shelley Powers' BurningBird: [[April 5, 2001, after lurking for a year. Shelley's first post was on a Userland Manila site and has since disappeared. Conspiracy? TAHDW? You be the judge. Shelley has special dispensation because she is my idol. She's the only first post I'll include without a link.]]
Marc's Nexistepas: October 8, 2001
Gonzo Engaged: October 14, 2001
George Sessum's Musick: October 23, 2001
Jeneane Sessum's Allied: November 4, 2001
Gaspar Torriero: November 7, 2001
Kevin Marks Epeus' epigone: November 7, 2001
Gary Turner's* MLOD: November 14, 2001 (Gary Turner's "Inturnernet News" blog dates back to 1999.)
David Weinberger's JOHO: November 15, 2001*. (*JOHO was started in 1999, and after a two-year hiatus, re-emerged.)
Denise Howell's Bag n Baggage: November 28, 2001
Elaine's Kalilily: November 29, 2001
Jennifer Balderama's Nonsense Verse: December 7, 2001
Frank Paynter's Sandhill Trek: January 5, 2002
Halley's Commentsans: January 10, 2002
Mike Golby: Jan 11, 2002
AKMA: January 23, 2002
Tom Shugart's Insiteview: Feburary 21, 2002
Doug's The Dynamic Drivel: March 28, 2002
Jonathon Mays' Stretching Thought: April 16, 2002
Liz Lawley's Mamamusings October 22, 2002 (happy first birthday, Liz!)
2 Comments:
Nah, all of the old Userland weblogs were disappeared a long time ago. And some I didn't bother recovering as I moved from blogging tool to blogging tool.
But I started in 1951, so *pbhhbbt*! to the Fish Man!
Shelley
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Shelley, at 1:58 PM
thanks for the link, Tom - but the URL you used is for the Blogger incarnation of enthusiasm. My first post is still to be found at http://www.nexistepas.com/enthuse/?p=22
(it's post number 22 because I'd made 21 posts in the WordPress version of the blog before I imported the older posts)
rgds, marc
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