First Blog Posts and Archives

December 26, 2003 4 | Comments (Closed)

With the new year coming up I’ve found myself looking back over the past year quite a bit. Today I jumped way back into the past.

One of the great things about blogs and blogging technology is the built in archiving. Today I was looking back though my own archives and I read my first post.

Virgin? So this is my first plunge into the world of blogging. I think it’ll be a good way to hone my writing skills. What you’ll see here at “*” is pretty much whatever I feel like writing about, but I plan on keeping it mostly business. So let’s go.

Much has changed since then. I think my writing has improved quite a bit and my titles are way, way better.

I thought it might be fun to read some first posts from other bloggers. I was right and decided to share. Below are links to some of the posts I read, a few might not be the actual first post, but they’re the first one I could find. It’s really interesting to see how people’s style and content have changed over the years.

It was also interesting and very surprising to see how many folks either didn’t have archives or they were so hard to navigate as to be almost worthless. The reason you don’t see some great authors on this list is because I couldn’t find thier first post. It’s too bad really.

In spite of that — here are a few of the posts. I hope the authors don’t mind me digging around their old content! There’s some good stuff you find in peoples archives.

• Jason Kottke — Why? — Posted March 14th, 1998
• Doug Bowman — Something New — Posted August 19, 2002
• Dave Shea — Inaugural Post — Posted November 8, 2002
• Biz Stone — No title — Posted April 7, 2000
• Dan Ruben — You’ve Got Banter! — Posted July 19, 2002
• Jeremy Keith — Welcome to my world — Posted May 31, 2002
• Dan Cederholm — No title — Posted September 1, 2000
• Michael Heilemann — First Post! — Posted May 31, 2002
• Richard Rutter — It begins — Posted May 31, 2002
• Nedward — I’ve got a new camera — Posted July 11, 2000
• Matt Haughey — I hereby nominate the Y2K — Posted January 1, 2000
• Cam Barrett — First Day — Posted June 11, 1997
• Jon Hicks — It won’t shake the earth — Posted April 25, 2003

Here’s to many more posts from these folks as well as all the other great independent content publishers out there. Everyone has to start somewhere.

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