Happy Birthday!
March 30th, 2007 by Michael KwanToday is a very special day. Not just for me. Not just for the blogosphere. But for the entire world as we know it. This is not an exaggeration, because… drum roll please… Beyond the Rhetoric turns one year old today. The first post welcomed you into the blogging mind of, well, me, and now that 365 days have past, a lot has changed.
For starters, I recently abandoned the sinking ship known as QuickBlog by GoDaddy and jumped on the rising star we call WordPress. Since then, I’ve installed a number of fun plug-ins, grown the community through MyBlogLog, and made a few blogging buddies along the way, going out for dot com pho on a weekly basis.
I’ve been writing for much more than one year, but this blog has received more attention than any of my self-branded products in the past. Yes, even more than the Geocities-hosted legend known as Now That’s Entertainment. I think RSS has a lot to do with it.
Obviously, I didn’t do all of this on my own. I got to know people like the chest-kicking Ed Lau, self-proclaimed dot com mentor Stephen Fung, the Malta-bound Darren Barefoot, the very pink Kumiko Suzuki and the root of all evil John Chow. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It is all about you, all of you, my growing readership… it is because of you that I’m still here, now blogging on a daily basis. Thank you. Like seriously. Thank you.
The next milestone? How about ten years? 100 RSS subscribers? Technorati rating of under 1000? Official dot com mogul status?
Filed under Stuff.
Happy birthday
Happy first birthday to your blog! Is it toilet trained yet?
Kumiko
For the most part. It does have the messy accident from time to time, but that’s nothing a good spam filter can’t catch.
Yey birthdays are always fun! lol But yeah, congrats on the 1 year milestone. Many blogs don’t make it past 1 month!
Heyehey Haaapppy Birthday BTR.
BTW its really hard to believe that a blog of a freelance writer is only an year old.. anyway keep u the good work
I’ve been a professional (freelance) writer for about a year now, but I’ve been writing (both paid and unpaid) for a while. I had (have?) another blog at writingup.com, but I never update that one anymore. And then I had my old site — Now That’s Entertainment — that I never monetized.
It seems like whenevr a comment is posted an additional http:// is added at the begining of my blog
I just looked at the URI you entered above and it’s because you didn’t put in the colon after http, so it automatically inserted a http:// in front.
I’m finally off work now so I’d like to give a big birthday hug to BTR (and you ;P)
So thats it..Sorry
Congrats Michael!
Happy Belated Birthday to your blog Michael
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Happy b-day!