[HN Gopher] Twenty Years of Blogging
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       Twenty Years of Blogging
        
       Author : hasheddan
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2023-05-09 21:18 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | simonw wrote:
       | The best time to start blogging was twenty years ago. The second
       | best is today - having a personal blog is an investment that just
       | keeps on compounding over time, even if you only post things
       | there a few times a year.
       | 
       | Mine hit 20 last year:
       | https://simonwillison.net/2022/Jun/12/twenty-years/
        
         | ubermonkey wrote:
         | Mine'll be 23 years old in November. I don't post much anymore,
         | but I'm trying to get back in the habit. http://mischeathen.com
         | 
         | Early on, it was a couple hundred posts a year, but I got
         | really politically engaged in the wake of the 2000 election and
         | that helped encourage activity. Busiest year was 2007, with
         | 1,147 posts.
         | 
         | Last year was only 28, but I'm nearly at that for 2023 already.
         | Less politics now, more writing, and more just sharing stuff. I
         | need to hook up the share-to-Mastodon thing since I'm obviously
         | no longer sharing to Twitter.
         | 
         | Mine's been through several platforms -- first Blogger, then to
         | Grey Matter, then Blosxom (whose simplicity I really miss), and
         | for a few years on Movable Type, before landing (obviously) on
         | Wordpress in 2012. I had comments for a while, but that became
         | untenable, and also less rewarding in the era of social media.
         | 
         | Early on, when corporate sites were typically hosted IN HOUSE,
         | like in the same building that business got done in, it was fun
         | to look through the logs and see recognizable domains -- a
         | buddy's law firm in NY, etc. Eventually when colos took over
         | that stopped being as easy to do, and that I look back at doing
         | so fondly probably dates me.
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | I've been writing bloggish stuff for Websites, since 1996 or so.
       | I don't think I have had any site last too long. I have an old
       | personal site[0], which is probably circa 2K or so, but it's
       | pretty much moribund. I just have it up on blocks, and I'm
       | stripping it for parts.
       | 
       | This guy has some pretty serious SO score[1]. I like that he's
       | asked a number of questions, as well as provided answers.
       | 
       | [0] https://cmarshall.com
       | 
       | [1] https://stackoverflow.com/users/8206/eli-
       | bendersky?tab=profi...
        
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