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"One from the vaults": may I be so prolific myself!

This blog's been running only a couple of months. In the meantime, I've been learning a lot about the blogosphere and its evolving culture which I'd not known before... I was introduced to the concept of "blog" only a couple of months before by visiting friend Tom Burroughes, so I'm still a relative newbie. This is more than slightly embarrassing for me, given that one of my trusted friends, Dave Krieger, co-authored an O'Reilly book on the subject a year ago, Running Weblogs with Slash. Doh!

In the course of my travels, I've started to pick up bits 'n pieces of practices from others, and may in a few months launch a "One from the vaults" category, inspired by Toren Smith's "IDIOTS PUBLISH NEWSPAPER...Film at 11":

"One from the vaults" digs out decent old posts from back when my traffic was a fraction of what it is now and reposts them, for those who may have missed them when they first ran. And because my site traffic is way down on Sundays.

Sunday is a slow traffic day for me too, but still dramatically busier than any day of the week a mere 8 weeks ago.

We'll see in a year. In the meantime, I may go ahead and add a "Bizarre search hits of the week"; this is actually a very common practice on personal blogs nowadays, but thanks to Toren Smith's employment of the practice in a side-splitting context, I'm motivated to consider actually doing it. My good friend Anton Sherwood gave me the original idea a while back, of course.

By the way, Anton and Toren: looks like you both share an interest in Old English.

There: got all the attributions out of the way so that next year or later, none of you guys will think I'm using good ideas without proper attribution.

Posted by Russell Whitaker at January 5, 2003 06:18 PM | TrackBack