Bob Carlton on The 10th Anniversary Of Blogging

[via email]

Greeting[s,] fellow bloggers. Next Monday, we all have an anniversary - our tenth. According to Wikipedia:

the term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger (http://www.robotwisdom.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger) on 17 December 1997. The short form, “blog,” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May of 1999. As of September 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 106 million blogs.

All of us blog - some for the chance to make our voice heard, some for the chance to connect, some to journal - some do it for no apparent reason (I am still trying to figure out my why). But whatever the reason - we blog, posting text and images and video.

Martha Stewart (or other folks who track these things) would tell that for the “proper” thing to do on the tenth anniversary of a relationship are

• any thing silver or blue.
• any gifts that are tin or aluminum. The pliability of tin and aluminum is a symbol of how a successful marriage needs to be flexible and durable and how it can be bent without being broken.
• daffodils. Trumpet-shaped daffodils represent joy, cheerfulness, and happiness

Just as there is no one way to blog, there is no one way to celebrate this momentous anniversary. Here are 3 ideas:

• post on the relationship(s) you have with your blog
• spotlight voices on the edges, 10 blogs that may be outside the view of most readers
• reflect on your first “date” - the blogger who inspired you to blog and/or your own first post

Happy anniversary too all of you (and to Jorn Barger, where ever he is) - and thanks for all the gifts you give by blogging !

P.S. - for the last 2 years, a number of us have done a Top % retrospective of posts over the last year ( http://thecorner.typepad.com/top5/ ) - if you are interested in being a part of this, I am hoping this year we can do it as a fund raiser for a great group in New Orleans - just click here (http://thecorner.typepad.com/give5now/) to be a part of this.

P.P.S. - please forward this to any one you feel would be interested in either opportunity.

bob carlton

blog: http://thecorner.typepad.com/bc/