UrbanGrounds is 1 year old today
On Sept. 22, 2004, I installed WordPress 1.2 and transformed my online canoeing journal into a blog.
I moved over a few legacy pieces from the journal, but the first new post to UrbanGrounds was one year ago today—a review of the 2004 Austin City Limits Music Festival.
During the first year:
- I wrote 412 posts within 20 different categories.
- And you, my readers, wrote back 1,771 times in the comments section of various posts. I’ve learned that my most vocal readers are those who disagree with me about the death penalty (the death row inmate groupies, I like to call them).
- I have enjoyed 43,715 unique visitors to my site. It’s a very, very small number of the estimated 35-million daily blog readers — smaller still considering Glenn Reynolds averages 43,715 visitors per day. Before his second cup of coffee.
After 1 year, I still feel like I’m just getting my feet wet, and that I still have a lot to learn. A special thanks to some bloggers who inspired me to start this and keep me inspired still today: Annika, Michelle, Jeff, and Greg.
Congrats! Here’s to years more.
Left by Jason on September 22nd, 2005 at 10:00 pm