Today is my fixed blogiversary (Feb. 25). My movable blogiversary is Ash Wednesday.
The reason I have two blogiversaries is that I wrote my first post (a review of The Passion of the Christ, which I had just come from seeing) on Ash Wednesday last year, which was Feb. 25th.
It was the day the movie opened, and it seemed like a good day to open the blog I had been thinking about, too.
So here we are, one year out.
In that year I switched from doing a home-designed blog in FrontPage to a professional level blog using Moveable Type. It acquired its own domain name. It migrated from cox.net to TypePad (about 10 months ago). And since that time it’s racked up almost a third of a million hits (will probably hit that mark in about a week), had 1171 posts, 5767 comments, won the best apologetics blog award from CyberCatholics, and evolved from being an insignificant microbe to a marauding marsupial in the TTLB ecosystem (large mammal or bust!).
INSTANT UPDATE: While getting the link for my page in the TTLB ecosystem, I just discovered that we not only have evolved into a large mammal (at least for the moment), we have also cracked the top 1000 blogs in the ecosystem (at this moment we’re #995).
YEEEEEEE-HAW!!!
Thanks, y’all, for making this an extra-special first fixed blogiversary!!!
Congratuations! I gave up my various Catholic discussion forums for Lent, so you are pretty much my go-to guy for Catholic commentary right now. You never disappoint.
‘thann
Congrats on your current large mammal status! Here’s a hope for further blog-evolving success!
Jimmy,
Your blog is outstanding. I’ve listened to you on Catholic Answers Live for a long time (CA was crucial in my conversion). But from listening to you, I never would have dreamed that you were not only a great apologist, but also an RPG playing, comic book reading, Star Trek analying, science grokking nerd… just like me! 😛
Thanks for being you!
Happy Anniversary!
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BillyHW, LOL!
‘thann
Congrats, Jimmy! I have only been reading you for a few months, but you are the best!
Congrats, buddy! You have been an inspiration to me for a long time, and now I have been inspired to start my own blog concerning Christianity and the arts (esp. Catholicism and Visual arts).
Any advice?
Congratulations, once again, as well as heartfelt thanks. You deserved a nice day off. Hope you enjoyed it.