I missed two milestones in the past month:
- The 10th anniversary of my first website
- The 6th anniversary of this blog
It seems unbelievable that I’ve been blogging since 2001. Feels like a long time now. I didn’t use any software then, and there was no RSS feed. Many of the posts I added while using MovableType crashed badly at some point, so a lot of the posts from 2003-2004 were compiled and reposted. I’ve been much happier since I’ve been using Wordpress.
My first post talked about what became the Open Access movement. I’d like to get back to more questioning posts. Any requests? 
Many thanks to each and every one of you, dear readers!
Wow Fiona. Congratulations. This makes you a blogging elder - and one of the first libblogs ever, I guess. The big question is - do you think you’ll be blogging in another 6 years?
Thanks!
I haven’t a clue if I’ll still be blogging then - I do expect to have a web presence still but what form that takes, who knows!
Congratulations!
Congratulations, Fiona!
I’m curious as to what you think the benefits of blogging are? I seem to recall you (I hope it was you!) once wrote about how blogging can take away some of the precious time we have for other writing (professional/academic).
I do also wonder how blogging will evolve over the next few years, but who knows what form it will take?
Thanks everyone
I was trying to think last night of an obvious benefit… but I think the benefits are more subtle and are a bit like stepping stones in the mix. For example, blogging has given me an amazing network of people to talk to, ask questions of, and learn from. From that, papers and invitations etc have come about in a tangental way.
I think blogging has made me more motivated to keep up with other blogs - as you say it would be hard to maintain momentum if all you was doing was reading.
For me, blogging has taken time away from writing, but given the huge amount of writing I’ll be doing over the next couple of months I guess it serves me right
Happy Birthday
I’m coming up to 5 years on my current blog, though there various sporadic attempts before that. I think my first actual webpage was pre mosaic but I am an old fart afterall
happy anniversary!