Blogging History
So, no, this isn’t a post about me going back in a Time Machine and live blogging a historical event — as neat as that would actually be. If I could, I think right now I’d head back and blog the Constitutional Convention and things that the founders intended for this once-great country. But anyone, onto the purpose of this post.
I happened to be commenting on another blog that uses Blogger. I noticed that it picked up my gmail login and connected that to my “profile.” I followed that profile, which led me to my first blog site on blogger. It’s still there. Heh. I haven’t used that site for blogging in two and a half years.
Wow. That got me to thinking how long I’ve been doing this. I started posting there in July of 2004. Holy cow. Have I really been “blogging” for that long? I need to get a life. I actually got started after reading Vox Day for awhile. Later on I discovered Bad Example and their whole family. Harvey managed to get me an invite to mu.nu during a time that Blogger was very unstable. Then I started blogging at my own my.nu site. I was actually there from about June 2005 until November 2007. Now I’m over here and still going strong.
I sure write a lot, don’t I?
Well, anyway, in case you were interested, that’s a little about the history of this blog. And if you weren’t interested, you shouldn’t have read this far. Sorry for have wasted that few minutes of your life! 
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Pretty wild, huh? You and I started the same month, though I was on Tripod. Site is still there, too.
Really? I knew we were close, I never knew we were THAT close! Neat!
aw u old thing u..haha
Yup, july 22, 2004, first post. It’s amazing how much we’ve learned about doing this stuff since that time.
Isn’t it? I go back and read some of those posts from the old days and think, “Gee, did I write that?”
My redirected blogger site is still there along with the Mu.Nu site I destroyed.
http://www.americanwarmonger.blogspot.com
http://www.warmonger.mu.nu
Now I’m over at Periodically Correct, starting back up again.
http://www.periodicallycorrect.blogspot.com
Oh, but hey — your sites don’t forward someone
If you go to the mu.nu site, you’re stuck and can’t find your new one… then again, that may have been your intention all along… 
Actually it was. I was ditching a stalker instead of going through the trouble of filing a lawsuit and ended up quitting for um…half a year.
My dad started back up again on occasion as well: http://www.popsupallnight.blogspot.com. He’s actually a respected member of the RNC in Washington state.
I seem to remember such a time. Sure has been a long strange trip, eh?
Yeah, definitely man. Many of he same people still hang out as well. I’m really surprised Mustang as the same basic blog designs he did over a year ago. Good stuff.
So what tools does everybody use these days for hit counters/ratings and such? I’ve been out of the loop for a good while.
Sitemeter is still the biggy. Go Stats is also good, as long as you are sticking with one theme. The Ecosphere is slowly dying away, doesn’t have the impact it once did.
Stats? That’s so last year…
Indeed, the Ecosphere really lost it when people figured out how to game it and make it weird. Also, it was very difficult to make changes and update information, especially on group lists.
I know sitemeter took a hit for awhile when it was found to be 3rd-party cookie-using. Still gets used a lot. I pretty much don’t track anything. I tried to use a WordPress plug in (popularity contest), but it just stopped updating one day, so I stopped using it.
If you take a look at the ecosphere, there are lots of blogs in the top 100 where you just go WTF? Some aren’t blogs. Some have huge states because they are linked through AOL. There is one that is in the top 10, yet, might get a comment or 2 per post, because linked through AOL.
Some of the older plugins do not play nice with WP 2.3. I think the blogosphere has become kinda of staid, with little of the wild stuff that was happening even just a year ago. When was the last time a good meme went around? I know you hate them, but, there used to be at least one a week.
Anyone can get to the top 10 if they know how to play in the system.
And yes, it seems to me as well that things have changed a bit in the last couple years. New, different things were going on all the time for awhile, but it does seem to have solidified and become less changing these days. I hadn’t said anything, figuring it was just me…
Na, not just you. A lot of the inovation, free spirit, and wackiness has gone from the ’sphere.
I guess it’s time has come and gone…so we were in on the cutting edge, and we’re still hanging on now that we’re dinosaurs…