The easiest way to see the first entry in any particular Journal is to click "View Archives" in the header, then hit the link "First Entry in This Journal":
However, for those who remember, I also started the Expressions Factory blog, back on July 27, 2004.
Personally, I've had a blog in some form or another since Sept. 2003, though a lot of that was just playing around with testing different blogging platforms -- I didn't really start blogging for real (updating on a regular basis) until January, 2004.
Of course, blogfather John makes blogging noobs of us all; he started blogging September 13, 1998.
I wasn't sure that he wasn't pulling my leg, or that there even were blogs then (though Wikipedia says blogs date back to 1994), but both John's book jackets and Wikipedia entry confirm it. (And you know, no sketchy info has ever made it into book jackets or Wikipedia.)
So, from now on, in honor of that, and playing off one of his book titles, I will be calling John "Old Man Scalzi."
Anyway, to bring this all back around to you folks, check out some of the entries tagged with "AOL Journals Anniversary" (find out how to tag your own entries, plus grab the anniversary badge in my earlier entry about the anniversary). Remember, you don't have to have been around since the beginning in order to participate in the festivities.
Also, if you were Journaling in 2003, I'd like to feature some of your photos and blogs -- if you're interested in being featured, send me an e-mail with a photo and I will get back to you with a photo release and all that good stuff.
Thanks -- Joe
6 comments:
Whatcha wearing to the party Joe? Oh...me and my friends will be arriving to the party in a PINK HUMMER...we might have one more seat open for you Joe. ;)
Robin
http://journals.aol.com/robinngabster/Thesearethedaysofourlives/entries/2006/08/14/glitz-glitter-glamour-and-cleavage/1736
yeah Joe this all good adn very informative but what J LAND WANTS TO KNOW IS WHAT IS JOE WEARING TO THE CELEBRATION??????????
Joe, just wanted to let you know about an event for the AOL Journals 3-Year Anniv that I introduced in my journal for others to participate in on Aug. 21. It's called "My Past Year in J-Land". Take a look:
http://journals.aol.com/fisherkristina/SometimesIThink/entries/2006/08/13/announcing-a-j-land-activity-my-past-year-in-j-land/1133
Thanks for everything, Krissy :)
You'd be surprised how hard it is to get sketchy info into Wikipedia. People put nonsense in, but other people usually take it out less than five minutes later. Even good info is often taken out if someone finds it objectionable or unnecessary.
Karen (frustrated Wikipedian)
We really do deserve a party. Spend a little of that Bad Anner money on the Journalistas
I think I started in 2004, so I'm out of this one. I may have won the first blog contest though, and deserve to be mentioned in any discussion of Blog History. In fact, if the right people worked for AOL, you'd have already hacked a reference to this fact into that Wikipedia entry.
AOL obviously has the corporate/techno types working there... but you need at least one person on your staff who has won a student council election through slander and vote-fixing.
It's only a matter of time before the Other Guys get someone like that on their payroll, and they'll go through you people like s*** through a goose.
Don't worry, though.... there'll always be a place for a good guy like Joe at my company.
No celebration of AOL Journals would be complete without making reference to some of the pioneers, like Pamela Hilger, for example.
-Paul
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