Darren Rowse probably doesn’t remember this, but he and I had a lengthy IM chat circa 2005 or so. I lived outside of San Francisco at the time, and Darren lives across the date line in Australia. He was (and is) friendly, engaging, informative, and passionate about the craft, science, and business of professional blogging.
So that’s to say I’ve long been a great fan of Darren’s ProBlogger, and want to congratulate for hitting the amazing mark of 5,000 posts. 13 Things I’ve Learned about Successful Blogging, which marks the occasion, is a great read and all signs point to ProBlogger remaining one of the best blogs-about-blogging that there is.
I’d say I’ve probably written somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,500 posts since late 2004 or so between Dumpster Bust (my original blog), Blogcritics.org, OMC, and various other professional and freelance gigs (such as Web Worker Daily most recently) I’ve had over the years. That feels like a lot to me, so I find a mark of 5,000 universally strong posts to be an astonishing mark.