Two Years Ago: My First Thoughts on Weblogs
Posted on Saturday, February 28th, 2004 6:40 PM
It's amazing what two years will do. I'm now employed as the weblog guy at a mobile startup, but it was two years ago today when I started using Radio Userland and started grasping the whole idea of what weblogs are. It's amazing that two years on, I still see new weblogs with essentially the same type of post in their first week:Weblogs
Okay, so they're the in-thing now. I wish I thought of the idea years ago since it's such a simple thing to do - you write your thoughts, click a button and bam, your home page is updated with fresh content. It's a great idea since no one likes stale vanity pages. I have a "notebook" link on my home page and though it's similar, it doesn't have that immediate effect that a true weblog (or blog if you like) does. I've just decided to make my personal website - which up until now has contained a bunch of photos and my resume - into a true weblog. I hope it doesn't take away from my resume since I'm still looking for a job, but hey.
Okay, so I'm using Radio Userland's weblog system now and even though it's okay, I think I can do better (of course). What I want is a full automated Java based system that I can customize...
Cool beans...
-Russ
