With dual milestones in view (10,000,000th visit just behind and third year just ahead), I poked around in the database to see what sort of things might be interesting to remember.
Just shy of our three-year anniversary, we celebrated our 10,000,000th visit on August 3, 2005. As co-owner of Blogcritics.org, I am especially proud of the hard work that goes on behind the scenes to make this site a success. A group of 16 volunteers work with Eric Olsen and me as Section Editors, Assistant Section Editors, and Editors-At-Large, as well as on specific tasks like maintaining the database of items available for review and enforcing the comment policy.…
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26 - Mark Sahm
Phil, thanks for the old school version of BC. I find it interesting to see how websites evolve and so on. I found a version of my own website from 2000 the other week. Apart from being terribly ashamed at how my bad my web skills were then, I did find the nostalgia redeeming. Hope you did too for BC.
27 - TDavid
Phillip - Remember (maybe I'm wrong) a post with pictures of the various incarnations of Blogcritics logos? It was on/around the time that gal freaked out over the Halloween theme design. Remember that?
28 - TDavid
Just did some searching and found them. It's all coming back!
The post about the Blogcritics Halloween design was here ("Her Fog"): http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/11/04/125244.php
And the post showing various Blogcritics screenshots was here: http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20031105/368/
29 - uao
I'd just like to add my thanks to the editors, volunteers, writers, and commenters who make this site so special. As a latecomer, I've missed much of the history, but I've always appreciated the good writing, wit, thoughtfulness, sillyness, and intelligence of the regulars here, and many of the visitors who pass through. I've met some fine people here, and learned many important things. And I always am entertained.
10 million is a grand milestone; Blogcritics is untique on the web.
Here's to the next 10 mil; it'll take you a third of the time to reach the next milestone...
30 - Mark Saleski
gee, thanks brick. see, i always said that you never got over the ms. tek back photo...and i was RIGHT!
ps. pwinn is right. get a blog. please?
pps. if you get a blog i'll take you to a used record store. honest.
ppps. hey, my younger stepkid is moving to a new apartment a week from saturday. wanna help?
31 - Phillip Winn
I miss Tek.
Brick, dude, get a blog ASAP! Need help? For you -- and you only -- I'll set up a blog on my own personal domain, just so you can get into Blogcritics. How does 'bricklayer.winn.com' grab ya?
uao, I love your Artist Overviews. And I think it'll take us about a sixth of the time, actually. :-)
32 - Eric Olsen
I third that Bricky, although I wouldn't want to see your comments reduced as a result.
Tek decided that our acknowledgment of Al running for the U.S. Senate was just too much - of course she had quit about 3 times previously so it was just a matter of time.
33 - Phillip Winn
I'm serious, Bricklayer!
34 - Al Barger
Granted, the TekWh0re had a nice back, but unfortunately she was also exceedingly hateful and spiteful. I don't miss her malicious outbursts.
By the way, in that same time frame, I was actively publicly and privately encouraging her to file for office and chronicle it here as I was doing, perhaps as a Green candidate for Congress or some such.
Let's make this all unanimous, adding my vote with Misters Winn, Saleski and Olsen that you should be blogging. Indeed, note that I've put up a link to Phil's dummy Bricklayer page, for whatever drop of Google juice that might lend your launch.
In short, come on in Bricklayer, the water's fine.
35 - gonzo marx
don't do it...they all talked me into it..and i still don't write anything besides comments...
be true to your soul...stay hardcore...don't fall for their saccharine schemings and Faustian bargans...
you do know i am just Jesting...right?
...:::ducks:::...
Excelsior!
36 - Steve S
If you don't have a blog, it's just because you haven't found what you are passionate about yet.
37 - MCH
Anybody got a link to the Ms. Tek back photo? I missed it.
38 - Triniman
Ms Tek's site and photos. Click on each month.