Blogiversary 2

Posted by Stropp on September 11, 2008

Two years ago today, I installed my first Wordpress blog, picked a theme, and wrote my first post. As first posts go, it wasn’t much more than a simple hello, but it was the number one.

At the time I was just starting to get interested in the whole blogging concept, and I had read a number of posts by various bloggers that the best way to start was to pick a subject that you are passionate about and just start writing. At the time I was playing way too much World of Warcraft, so I picked that.

Since then I’ve migrated away from being a simple WoW blog, to something more generalized around the MMO Games niche. I’ve been reasonably good at staying on topic, even if sometimes I stray into other areas. Occasionally my hot buttons get pressed, and you’ll see a rant about censorship and game politics, or how the media perceives us.

So. Two years. Wow.

I completely missed the date last year, and by the time I remembered it was too late to even note it. Somehow my memory didn’t let me down this year.

In the last two years, I’ve fiddled around with the layout of the blog and had several themes. The current one seems to be sticking in spite of my obsessiveness with fiddling.

I haven’t been Dugg at all, though I have had some interest from Digg, but I’ve been Slashdotted.

I’ve changed from just playing WoW, to playing a variety of MMO games, to what looks like my new number one — Warhammer Online.

I’ve beta tested a couple of games, but in truth I haven’t been able to get into as many betas recently. It might be because I tell them I’m a blogger at the beta signup. We’re not that scary are we?

I’ve had a few ups and downs. There was a several month period in 2007 where I had absolutely no motivation to post that corresponded with a period of severe MMO burnout.

And one small post about World of Warcraft Addiction, posted back in November 2006 remains my most searched, viewed, and commented post ever. Another post called Beefed Up Blood Elves where I criticized the prettiness of the Belf is the most commented, and where the most bile has been directed at me.

More importantly, I’ve learned a whole lot about blogging, and writing. From my perspective I’ve improved my skills dramatically. I now take less than half an hour to write a decent post. When I started it took up to ninety minutes.

In some ways it’s hard to believe I’ve been going this long. When I started, I honestly wasn’t sure that blogging would stick.

Now, it’s hard to consider not doing it.

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