And now we are three
Tonight’s the night that Seattle Metblogs celebrates its third birthday. Hope you can mosey up to Capitol Hill tonight for our third birthday tea party at Remedy from 6 to 8. We’re paying for part of it, or all of it. I can’t remember. But there will be free stuff, and you’ll get to meet all the Metbloggers. Except me. I’m still in Alabama.
There’s a dirty little secret we’re keeping from you. We don’t actually think today is our third birthday. In fact, we’re not even sure when the site went public. We know that Seattle Metblogs authors started loading the queue in July 2004, but what is customary for Metblogs to do is to not make a site public and live until there’s critical mass, usually about a month in. So we think August 2004 sounds about right.
One thing I want to say to all of you is THANK YOU. Thank you for reading. Thank you for putting us in your RSS readers. Thank you for making good comments. Thank you for taking a crap in the comments. Thank you for linking to us. Thank you for linking to us and saying what idiots we are. Thank you for reading out posts out loud to your partners or children because something we said made you spew delicious beverage on your monitor. Thank you for giving us your attention. Because, well, it’s nice to know that someone in this world reads us and finds us worth their time feel any emotion, good, bad, angry, or sad about. We don’t get paid to write any of this. It’s all about the love of the blog, the love of writing, and the love of the ugly, wonderful, beautiful, terrible city of Seattle. The coming year is going to bring a whole bunch of changes in the Seattle blogging community. Local media companies are starting to invest heavily in the idea of the “hyperlocal” blog. Money is starting to pour in. Seattle is going to be the battleground for the so-called “Web 3.0″ ideas of social networking and community. The next year will be the kind that generates PhD dissertations, Harvard Business reviews, and a lot of hype.
So, thank you. From all of us. Please keep reading, and we’ll keep trying to be better.
Here are some brief statistics for those of you into stats.
- This is post 3964. Josh is the #1 author with 1405 posts. In other words, over 1 in 3 posts are authored by Josh.
- The #1 most read, most Googled post of all time? Think south King County, Equus, and Charles Mudede. (How big? It’s two years later, and it’s the third most popular article this month.)
Hope to see you tonight. Actually, if you see me tonight, I’ll be asking what you’re doing in Alabama….
I’m pretty sure that we were open for business in July. My account was set-up in late June.
As evidence: the first comment was by Michael Hanscom to a post [mb] by Chris Blakely [lj]. Incidentally, Hanscom had the first post.
Then again, maybe these were internal comments before the site was unveiled to the world.
I’d just like to point out that Josh and I are the only remaining authors who’ve been on board from the very start. Also, while Josh has posted more than I have, my first post pre-dates his. I wonder who is in the #3 seniority position? Samantha? Dylan?
I think it’s C Ro, actually. I started early September of 2005–looks like my first post was on September 17.
Congratulations. I celebrated my fifth blog anniversary on 8bitjoystick.com this year (May 22, 2002).
And on the whole horse farking thing, sex is always your most popular post.. Sex and software piracy.
9.10% of my total blog traffic goes to a single page where I sarcastically wrote about pirating Xbox games and it is top three in Google on the phrase “Burn Xbox”. Your probably going to get search engine hits about horse humping until the end of time since Google as forever equated your site with horse humping.
If i wrote about both sex and pirating Xbox games in the same post I think it would blow up the server.
Oh man, I thought for sure Samantha had been here before me, but I guess not. Regardless, I do believe it is one Peter who is #3.
I think I like the previous designs better.
I liked the design that had the rotating photos floating across the top but I hated the first one. It was kinda homely.