Off the Mark is one-year old today. I’m not really sure whether it should serve as any sort of “true” anniversary as my public blogging started in a different venue in January 2005. Nonetheless, the current instantiation of my personal and professional raves and faves has been around for a year now.
My own domain is actually a year and 3 days old.
I want to give a shout out to LISHost for great hosting for the past year. While there have been some minor issues once or twice, Blake and crew have been awesome about providing an almost immediate and always personal response.
Including this post, I have made 271 posts here in the last year, with 4 more in draft. February (the shortest month, but also Birthday Month) had the most posts with 31, while March had the fewest with 10. November and May both had 30, while all the other months had 20-25 posts.
As for the domain, I have updated the site a small bit here and there and added some things. I have added a rough CV and a page of past writings, academic and otherwise. Oops, still need to link the CV but will do it this weekend as I have to head out to the dentist.
I still need to convert some of the writings to HTML, provide a bit more context for some of them, add some metadata, and add COinS to a few more where appropriate. As for the CV, I am aware that the dates are wrong/missing for the 2 invited talks. I am having a minor issue finding the correct dates for those since they happened before my hard drive crash. Just where is last year’s paper planner is the important question?
I also want to add more of my LIS work—class presentations, bibliographies and a paper or two. Actually, I can’t add more than a paper or two anyway seeing as I haven’t written more than 5 or 6 (certainly less than 10) papers in going on 80 hours of course work. That is odd.
It has been an amazing year in many ways. I blew it a few times in my quest to learn how to engage with others in the public arena that is blogging, while my reporting on the LC Working Group got me invited to be on a panel at ALA and was linked to from ALA Direct. I do think that I have learned a lot and that is the important thing.
So, to whoever is out there … thanks for the honor of a small bit of your time and attention. To those who have commented I offer a very special thank you for the conversation. Those who have taken me to task when I need it, THANK YOU.
May we all grow together, today, and in the future.
Congratulation. Has it been a year? Seems like…well, both shorter and longer.
Congratulations Mark. Looking forward to the next year of your blog. You do say some very thoughtful things.
Congrats on your anniversary Mark ! I enjoy your blog and always look forward to seeing new posts from you in my RSS reader…
Best wishes to you !
Actually, I can’t add more than a paper or two anyway seeing as I haven’t written more than 5 or 6 (certainly less than 10) papers in going on 80 hours of course work. That is odd.
Not odd at all. It just means that you have it all in your head, and you’ll just have to go for a doctorate in order to get it all out. A few hundred pages ought to do it.
Congrats on the blog anniversary! Your commentary is always thought-provoking.
Hi all and thanks!
It seems like longer, Walt, probably due to the previous blog which, of course, got sucked up into this one.
Jenn! We do not use the “P word” here.
Only teasing; I have been thinking more about it lately. But while it would serve as a credential (and hopefully training) for the things I most want to do (as of the moment), it would involve lots of hoops through which I do not want to jump and pretty much any job based on it would involve even more that I want to jump through even less. Not sure where that leaves me….
I hope to continue the thought-provoking commentary and to also dump some of the lately not-so-nice streak.
Growth; personal and professional is the goal.