Comments on: The power of ten http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/ a blog by Meg Pickard Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jan http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54855 Jan Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:33:32 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54855 Congratulations Meg Meish is wonderfully random with some very sharp observations. Great pictures too. You are also (though its harder for your blog to show this) an enabler, encourager and a patient teacher - of people who are just starting out on the whole thing. Thanks! Love, Jan (one of the aforesaid blogging parents) Congratulations Meg

Meish is wonderfully random with some very sharp observations. Great pictures too. You are also (though its harder for your blog to show this) an enabler, encourager and a patient teacher – of people who are just starting out on the whole thing. Thanks!
Love, Jan (one of the aforesaid blogging parents)

]]> By: Ten things, observed - meish dot org: life, unfolding http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54824 Ten things, observed - meish dot org: life, unfolding Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:30:44 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54824 [...] Ten things, observed Part of my tenth blogiversary series. [...] [...] Ten things, observed Part of my tenth blogiversary series. [...]

]]> By: graybo http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54822 graybo Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:03:44 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54822 Congratulations! Several of us celebrate ten this year - it's a remarkable milestone. The early days were great and special and quite different to now - but, at the same time, neither better or worse (or, perhaps more accurately, better in some ways, worse in others). It's been fun to read what you and others have written and, whilst the lovely technology has allowed us to do this thing called blogging, it wouldn't happen without the people. And that is what makes it special. Congratulations! Several of us celebrate ten this year – it’s a remarkable milestone. The early days were great and special and quite different to now – but, at the same time, neither better or worse (or, perhaps more accurately, better in some ways, worse in others). It’s been fun to read what you and others have written and, whilst the lovely technology has allowed us to do this thing called blogging, it wouldn’t happen without the people. And that is what makes it special.

]]> By: Uma http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54813 Uma Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:37:30 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54813 Congratulations Meg! I've been reading your blog for the past six or so years and it's been a pleasure! Keep it up :) Uma Congratulations Meg! I’ve been reading your blog for the past six or so years and it’s been a pleasure! Keep it up :)

Uma

]]> By: Cait http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54812 Cait Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:18:07 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54812 I had a big hiatus after running out of things to talk about but my first one, when I taught myself how to code turns out to have started in May 1998 (ended in Sept 99): <a href="http://www.zoonies.com/cait/home.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.zoonies.com/cait/home.html</a> It's amusingly gauche and self involved but I remember showing it shyly to Danny after I'd been doing it for a couple of weeks because barely anything like it existed at the time! Then I was horrified to discover several months later that everyone I knew at the time was reading it. The days before comments and the days when we were starting to get used to being public. Moolies then kicked off in early 2003, using the revelation of a bloog CMS. The relief! Blogs are weird, but can be compelling on both sides of the fence. All our posts are belong to us. I had a big hiatus after running out of things to talk about but my first one, when I taught myself how to code turns out to have started in May 1998 (ended in Sept 99):

http://www.zoonies.com/cait/home.html

It’s amusingly gauche and self involved but I remember showing it shyly to Danny after I’d been doing it for a couple of weeks because barely anything like it existed at the time! Then I was horrified to discover several months later that everyone I knew at the time was reading it. The days before comments and the days when we were starting to get used to being public.

Moolies then kicked off in early 2003, using the revelation of a bloog CMS. The relief!

Blogs are weird, but can be compelling on both sides of the fence. All our posts are belong to us.

]]> By: Meg http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54808 Meg Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:30:32 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54808 Wow, thanks everyone for saying nice things. And if I inspired you to take up blogging then I'm chuffed to bits and very glad/sorry (delete as applicable, in the style of An Unreliable Witness, abov) indeed. now, what else could I do a ten-related list about? Wow, thanks everyone for saying nice things.

And if I inspired you to take up blogging then I’m chuffed to bits and very glad/sorry (delete as applicable, in the style of An Unreliable Witness, abov) indeed.

now, what else could I do a ten-related list about?

]]> By: iain http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54807 iain Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:50:24 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54807 Congrats Meg, you're the reason I ended up blogging, and a great deal of my zeal for all things online comes from you. Thanks x Congrats Meg, you’re the reason I ended up blogging, and a great deal of my zeal for all things online comes from you. Thanks x

]]> By: Stuart Ian Burns (feeling listless) http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54806 Stuart Ian Burns (feeling listless) Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:02:07 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54806 Congratulations you. You were one of the reasons I started blogging. Congratulations you. You were one of the reasons I started blogging.

]]> By: Gordon http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54801 Gordon Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:18:48 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54801 Congratulations indeed. You've nailed a lot of my thoughts about blogging for so long as well, so when my 10yrs rolls around I'm hugely tempted to just point people here, "As says the Queen of the Internets". Congratulations indeed.

You’ve nailed a lot of my thoughts about blogging for so long as well, so when my 10yrs rolls around I’m hugely tempted to just point people here, “As says the Queen of the Internets”.

]]> By: An Unreliable Witness http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54800 An Unreliable Witness Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:54:24 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54800 A particular happy tenth anniversary from me, as notsosoft was fifty per cent to blame / responsible (delete as applicable) for me deciding, in October 2000, that something called 'blogging' (still a hideously ugly word) might be a good way to waste countless hours of my life. I appreciate that this must be an extraordinary honour / an awful cross to bear (again, delete as applicable). I still liked the orange the best. A particular happy tenth anniversary from me, as notsosoft was fifty per cent to blame / responsible (delete as applicable) for me deciding, in October 2000, that something called ‘blogging’ (still a hideously ugly word) might be a good way to waste countless hours of my life. I appreciate that this must be an extraordinary honour / an awful cross to bear (again, delete as applicable).

I still liked the orange the best.

]]> By: Shauna http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54798 Shauna Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:55:44 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54798 Well done Meg, and thank you! It's been a pleasure reading your thoughts all these years. Rock on! Well done Meg, and thank you! It’s been a pleasure reading your thoughts all these years. Rock on!

]]> By: Zoe Margolis http://meish.org/2010/02/27/the-power-of-ten/comment-page-1/#comment-54796 Zoe Margolis Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:18:06 +0000 http://meish.org/?p=3542#comment-54796 Happy anniversary, Meg! Here's to the next ten! Happy anniversary, Meg! Here’s to the next ten!

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