Wow, Three Years
Huh, I just realized that today is the three-year anniversary of this blog. Wow.
On August 17, 2004, I started a LiveJournal community in hopes of tracking all the information on Google, hoping that the community would feature lots of Google news and help keep me abreast of all things Google. Instead, I wound up doing all the reporting, and lots of people started subscribing.
Two days after I began the InsideGoogle community, Google’s shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Google was up 18% on the first day, and things were just starting to get exciting.
14 days after I started the LiveJournal community, I realized that I really had a blog, and I should be running it as a full, open blog somewhere. I figured no better place than Blogger (and back then, there wasn’t), so the Blogger blog was born on August 31, 2004. I duplicated all posts on both sites for the life of them, and I had to remove the LiveJournal community from the search engines to avoid duplicate content filters.
There are still 65 members of the old LiveJournal community and 73 watchers, even though I haven’t posted there since December 25, 2004.
At the end of the month, the anniversary of the BlogSpot blog, I’ll try to do something nice here. I still can’t believe I’ve been doing this for three years. I never thought I’d keep this up, let alone make it my job.
Life’s crazy sometimes.
Wow, nice bit of history. I had no clue you actually started on LiveJournal, I can only remember your previous site revision - I guess that’s the Blogger one.
I also didn’t know or remember http://opensource.blognewschannel.com/ - too bad it seems to have died over two years ago.
Congrats!
(You do have a tiny error in this post, you probably meant to type 2004, but wrote 2007 instead.)
Comment by Tim | August 17, 2007
Happy B’Day!
Comment by TOMHTML | August 17, 2007
I didn’t know you’d learned how to time travel into the future! You should have told me!
Comment by Matt | August 17, 2007
I started blogging in two weeks, but decided that to have some credibility, I needed to go back in time and blog for three years. Did it work?
Fixed the type
Comment by Nathan Weinberg | August 17, 2007
Planning to be a blackhat blogger now, are we, Nathan? Your mind tricks won’t work on me!
(Knowing LiveJournal, you *could* have backdated those entries, but I also noticed some comments made in 2004, and those can’t be backdated as far as I know.
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Comment by Tim | August 17, 2007