Yup, 5 years ago today, I posted the following:
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=476
I started on Moveable Type, but some time later switched over to WordPress.
Of course, I had the BIT-101 site and domain more than a couple of years before that, posting experiments and so forth. But everyone was doing the blog thing so I followed the lemmings over the cliff. 🙂 Now blogs are supposedly dead, replaced by Twitter, etc. But I think I can squeeze another year or two out of this old thing before retiring it.
Well I don’t know for me they are going up with Google RSS Reader + iPhone combo 🙂 Good way to read stuff while going to work as with this I get informed in real time about updates without spending time/traffic to go to all those logs I read 🙂
It’s kinda weird how your first post started with an id of 476…
i still find mxna content quite useful and have a hard time seeing it ported to twitter
I disagree on the knee jerk wired synopsis. I think blogging is just a tool amidst others such as flickr and other social publishing platforms. Soon we shall all see the disappearance of all these platforms. They are too centralized and containing. It’s why I just wrote my newest homepage [http://www.christeso.com] to aggregate all the data I push out at various publishing platforms. You’ll see decentralized platforms emerge, such as open social [http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/].
Congrats on 5 years, man.
Actually I don’t care if I’m on Goggle’s first page and I prefer to read niche blogs. I don’t have the time to read blogs that churn out 20 new post per day anyway. Maybe if blogs are out, all the pro-blogs disappear which might be good thing.
You are the best.
Can’t replace the spirit in an individual blog when it’s worthy of it’s followers. Where ever you take it next… Congrats on 5 years.
I guess five years was your goal? You ever gonna post again?