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A Week for Reflection on Blogging
By Larry Hendrick | March 20, 2007
The last week has been filled with people noting their blogging anniversaries including pertinent information from that time period. It got me to thinking about my blogging experience.
I started gathering information from the different locations I can still access. I wrote my first article in May 2004 at What a Country on Blogger.com, which morphed into Have a Great Day on a hosted Movable Type installation at SanLeon.net, the Redheads website. Tired of the limitations of Movable Type, I moved to Wordpress and renamed that blog Business Unusual. All 630 articles are archived at Business Unusual, but some pictures didn’t make the trip unscathed.
May 2005 found me doing a series of articles on learning to develop a podcast, including several test podcasts uploaded to Business Unusual. This was the preparation for Motivation on the Run which began in June 2005, including the first ever Motivation01. Motivation on the Run now has over 430 articles and includes over eighty podcasts full of me talking about motivation, leadership, management and other stuff.
Other blogs include another 140+ articles on various subjects depending on the website. Here are the statistics I have been able to gather. Keep in mind that until June 2006 I had no reliable stats on podcast downloads, so the numbers include what I can verify. I believe there are many not accounted for.
- 1200+ articles since May 2004 (35/month avg)
- 38,000+ podcast downloads (1900/month avg)
- 9 different blogs written for (7 mine)
- 4 blogs currently active participant
- 1 died (former company blog, shut down after I left)
- 2 static (time knows no master)
Blogs by timeline
- What a Country (started May 2004)
- Have a Great Day! (started April 2005)(no longer available)
- Business Unusual (June 2005)
- Letters to Mom (June 2005)
- Motivation on the Run (June 2005)
- LarryHendrick.com (November 2005)
- PGTechinc.com (?)
- 100Bloggers (March 2006)
- Flags Bay (The Daily Flag) (January 2007)
There is probably more information available, but it’s all I can think of at the moment. My three year anniversary will happen in a couple of months and that is shocking to me. It doesn’t seem like three years has passed.