Today is the 7th Anniversary of iwilldare.com
Today marks the seventh anniversary of this Web site, iwilldare.com. I wish I could say something pithy and provocative about blogging or the Internet after having been in the game for so long, but Alison said it beautifully a few weeks ago.
I miss the Internet from 2001 too. It seemed like a friendlier place. We were all bloggers. Now we have mommy bloggers or professional bloggers or photo bloggers or music bloggers or book bloggers or well, you get my drift.
When I started blogging I was an early adopter and now I’m passé. Being a single, childless gal writing about your life is not where blogging is at in 2007. I got no schtick.
Sometimes when I see the attention, the acclaim, the money, the book-deals other bloggers, who put no more passion and attention into their site than I do, get, I grow a little a bitter and stomp my foot much like the seven year old that iwilldare.com is.
Then I have to remind myself that I didn’t start this site for any of that. I started this site because I wanted to. Despite the occasional bitterness, the money or acclaim or book deal isn’t what motivates me to continue.
The only reason I continue after seven years in utter obscurity is because I want to. Which is just about the best damn reason I can think of to do anything.
Tags: anniversary, iwilldare.com, Writing
Posted on Tue, 31 July 2007 at 8:07 am
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31 Jul 07 at 8:25 am #being single and childress and a writer … i thought that WAS your schtick! U better WORK it grrl ’cause what else IS there???? ; )
31 Jul 07 at 8:39 am #Congrats! And thanks for being here or I’d have nothing else to make me laugh or provoke thought first thing in the morning at work.
31 Jul 07 at 9:25 am #7 years. that’s nuts. but that probably means that i’ve been reading everything you write for about that same amount of time! holy shit. that’s gotta be the equivalent of a whole lot of grown up books, ya know?
31 Jul 07 at 9:32 am #In 2002, I was at over 200,000 words and War & Peace only has 660, 000. So I’d say, Wendy, you’ve read the iwilldare.com equivalent of War & Peace. Go you!
31 Jul 07 at 9:37 am #Happy Birthday, iwilldare, and happy Anniversary, Supergenius!!
31 Jul 07 at 11:53 am #id be bummed if you didnt do this.i dont know why but i love your single,childless,writing style.and shit i dont even know you?
31 Jul 07 at 4:55 pm #Kudos to you, Jodi, and your consistently entertaining blog.
31 Jul 07 at 5:57 pm #Congratulations Jodi!
31 Jul 07 at 6:22 pm #I’ll add my kudos for the fine job you’re doing - those without a shtick have to actually be good to get readers, and it looks like you have quite a few.
Happy Anniversary I Will Dare. You have been a part of my daily internet life for at least five of those seven years. I wish I put half of the heart and soul into this site into mine. (Maybe if I did I would have the same one for a long time, and have a good reader base. ) I can’t thank you enough for you, being you!
31 Jul 07 at 6:25 pm #Happy Anniversary I Will Dare. You have been a part of my daily internet life for at least five of those seven years. I wish I put half of the heart and soul you put into this site into mine. (Maybe if I did I would have the same one for a long time, and have a good reader base. ) I can’t thank you enough for you, being you!
31 Jul 07 at 6:25 pm #Happy birthday! I bet great writing will weather the blizzard of MP3s and Flickr streams, so fear not. Retro-blogging is only one trope-twist away from putting us seven-year-old fogeys back in action.
Hey are there any other Twin Cities blogs from back then (2000-01) still plugging along? Dack.com seems to be back in old-skool action, for example…
31 Jul 07 at 11:40 pm #Rex is still going at it, though he moved to Seattle. Does that count?
To be honest, I am not even sure which Twin Citizens were around blogging that far back. I know a few of my favorite (bakiwop, mecawilson) gave up the ghost years and years ago.
31 Jul 07 at 11:49 pm #Please keep going Jodi. I think I would do something rash if you stopped.
Bestness,
Chas.
01 Aug 07 at 8:14 am #Just to let you know, I read your blog almost daily and I am unbelievably thankful that you don’t have a child and that you’re not married. Those blogs get old and annoying extremely quickly, while yours remains fresh and interesting.
01 Aug 07 at 11:27 am #Happy Anniversary I Will Dare! (and big time kudos to you, Jodi, for putting out seven years of engaging content)
I feel much the same way you and Alison do. I miss the early internet. I started blogging way back because it was a way to get pictures and news out to a massive amount of people 800 miles away from me. That was about a good year or two before Blogger started the decline of teh interweb.
01 Aug 07 at 7:29 pm #Congrats on the anniversary, Jodi. I’ve been going through the same sort of flashbacking to the pioneer days as you, wondering whatever happened to the sense that we were all a part of a community. Now the community’s gone; having a site doesn’t give you anything more in common with someone than owning a phone does.
But I read and enjoy what you write, and I hope you continue it for a good long time.
01 Aug 07 at 10:25 pm #“Utte obscurity” just like Emily Dickinson…
Happy anniversary, Jodi.
02 Aug 07 at 11:12 am #(I really should proofread before posting a comment)
02 Aug 07 at 11:13 am #i should proofread before posting an entry, and yet I never do.
Thanks for the sentiments.
I could be Emily:
Because I could not stop for Fame
It kindly stopped for me. . .
Okay, maybe it doesn’t quite work that way.
02 Aug 07 at 11:14 am #