3 effing years
In true blogging spirit and keeping up the tradition of navel gazing (among other parts of the anatomy), let me inform you that Selective Amnesia, that last resort of insanity and punny headlines, is now 3 years old.
I began SelectiveAmnesia.blog-city on the 28th of August, 2003.
Other, more famous bloggers who began during August are
Ravikiran – August 14, 2002(I think)
Charu – August 27, 2003 (Just a day before I did)
Congratulations, the two of you.
As I was saying, the 3 years since then has been, well, eventful. I got to be the top blogger for a while, Blogstreet listed me as the 4th most Influential blogger, 5th most popular, and then (perhaps afraid of me) pushed me to 25. I thought I pulled the plug on this blog, I came back 4 months later, more sure about blogging than I was before the plug-pulling stunt. And stuff like that.
But, 2003 wasn’t when I started blogging. Oh No! I had this stupid, badly written web-pages on Tripod. Sometime during 2002, Tripod offered this whole new thing called Blog. Though I didn’t know what the fuck it meant, I gave it a whirl. I read up on the word, learnt about Robot Wisdom, read a little about Dave Winer and RSS, started following Indian Blogs. That’s where I made the first mistake.
Sometime in 2003, I stumbled upon FilterCoffee, Mahesh Shantaram’s blog. From there, I came to Jivha, Kingsley, and Yazad. That’s when I made the second mistake. I wanted to go mainstream. And since Kingsley was the only Tam guy who I read back then, I followed his example. I set up my own blog on Blog-City. (That’s right! My reason for choosing a blogging service was so shallow, I am proud of myself)
Commentors came and went. Chenthil didn’t. Neither did Anand, Sat and a few other commentors.
Damn, got too mushy there. So I shall stop. Anyway, you do know the rest of the story by now, don’t you?
P.S. Links. I forgot. So? Also, apparently, commentor is spelt commenter. So says Chenthil. Ha! What does he know?
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August 29th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Kalakku machi!
August 29th, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Happy Birthday!
August 29th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Thanks, Anantha and Gaurav. Thanks.
August 29th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Belated Happy B’day!
August 30th, 2006 at 12:13 am
OMG, can’t believe it’s been that long! Rock on!
August 30th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Thanks Anu and Kingsley.
Kingsley, your ‘otha fuck’ was, I think, the first post of yours that I read
August 30th, 2006 at 11:26 am
[...] Selective Amnesia » 3 effing years. [...]
August 30th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Didn’t realise you’d only been around for 3 years, feels like for ever. Congratulations
August 30th, 2006 at 11:57 am
WA: 3 is a loooooong time. All the new bloggers, these days, hardly any staying power. )
August 30th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
Please may I add a note here that I am no newbie blogger and all. I blogged for almost a year and a half before i quit and I have been making a fool of myself reading and commenting in all the top bloggers blogs for a long time before that. So I demand that you take those words back now. Please
August 31st, 2006 at 10:19 am
Why the getting angry. I really didn’t mean you, I just made a general observation that newbie bloggers start and quit soon
August 31st, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Angry? Me? In that comment? Ada che
anyway, pls tell us how you get to vote numerous times in putvote
August 31st, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Congrats!
August 31st, 2006 at 1:37 pm
WA: Different IPs, proxies and logging off, and logging in will achieve what you want to
Ravikiran: Thank ye
August 31st, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Tried it, from home and from work totally different IPs but same log on and it doesn’t let me vote twice. And since we couldn’t do it, we’ve taken the issue to the authorities and expect you to lose this privilege too
Yaan petra inbam peruga ivvaiyagam etc etc…
August 31st, 2006 at 6:25 pm
CCG, 4 times putting vote on same post? Idha summa vida mudiyadhu.