50 years ago today Sputnik was launched. The launch of this site is undoubtedly on par with Sputnik in terms of historical significance! Here is a look back into the archives at some of the highlights from five years of blogging in no particular order.

Random Projects

Helping others start blogging

Nata Village

Gmail Clock Photos

Scourist

The Earth Sandwich

The Other Half of the Earth Sandwich

Adam Dow

Writings

5 things meme

The day citizen media went mainstream

Looking Down Over the Edge of a Cliff

Telling Gdub to Fuck Off

Blog nerds

Marathon

Memory Maps

Ashes

Moblogging for the First Time

Readers and other naive thoughts

Movie Watching Strategies and the Death of Network TV

Having a Voice

Automatically Geotag your Pictures (only 12 steps heh)

Hitting 1 million “hits”

Smart Automatic Movies

Post Comments of Die

Closet readers

First link: Viking Kittens -> precursor to lol cats?

More Personal Stuff

Elsewhere

Being inducted into the League of Awesomeness (still waiting for my certificate lol)

Protesting the invasion of Iraq two days after it started

Having the PVR I built on Engadget

Video on the CBC’s Zed

Getting quoted in the Globe and Mail (now behind a stupid paywall)

Getting Dugg back when 250 Diggs was alot

Learnings

People will ask you to blog about things or not blog about things.

Blogging has made me a more inquisitive more engaged person.

Motivations will change.

It pays for it’s own hosting and my daily coffee.

Go back and look at your archives from time to time theres lots of interesting things there!

Theres no such thing as a permalink. Links rot and die.

Try to include everything in the post itself.

The platform and design will change frequently.

Stick with at least one stats package.

Link to other people and comment on their stuff.

I like blogging.

Some not so useful stats:

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Akismet has protected your site from 131,365 spam comments.

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Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending Oct 04 2007
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