A blog a day keeps the gremlins away
by Harry Ford
My last few days at work of 2009 I saw a few different ideas for year long blogs. One idea I put to my friend Steve was Project52 a personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. The goal is to write at least 1 new article per week for 1 year. I didn’t think too much more about the idea and actually thought that maybe it would be too much in one year.
Then a day before we left to go on a New Year trip to North Wales Steve put his new idea to me, yearblog.co.uk. Steve had created this site with the aim to post 1 blog everyday for a whole year. So that would be 365 blogs in one year! For some reason being the mugg that I am, I wanted in right away.
Luckily enough Steve new the solution for allowing multiple blogs on the same domain (using either sub-domains or sub-directories), in the form of WordPress MU. He therefore created harryford.yearblog.co.uk for me. We both officially started our blogs New Year and have now been writing them for 5 days.
If you would like to get involved and create your own Year Blog please contact Steve at YearBlog.co.uk and make sure you follow his blog aswell.
Another year long blog idea I have seen grow quite popular is the 365 day design blog. Where designers create a unique piece of design every day for a year.
A few example blogs:
Comments
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Thanks for the mention! I look forward to year-long efforts.
Have I told you before I think your mad??