The 13-blog Strong Boles Blogs Network have been back on WordPress.com for a week or so, and in our two-year absence, there are many new things that have caught the love our eye. Here are our Top Ten moments of rediscovered WordPress.com passion in no particular order.
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Two years ago this Urban Semiotic blog was hosted right here on WordPress.com. Then, we moved this blog first to Media Temple and then to Pair Networks on the — we were soon to learn — unwieldy Movable Type blogging platform from Six Apart. Matt Mullenweg sent me a kind private note to wish us well on our departure for Movable Type. This article details our Movable Type hoary road and the bright path we beat back to WordPress.
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From January 10-16, 2009, the incredible Gordon Davidescu and I published 50 new articles — you’re reading number fifty right now — in the Boles Blogs Network! That is an incredible and unbelievable new publication record that didn’t happen by chance or circumstance. Gordon wrote 13 network blog articles and one Go Inside Magazine article and I wrote the rest.
When you write articles, it is rare you have an “Immediacy Thermometer” that shows you successes and failures. Our BolesBlogs Twitter account sends out updates for all our newly published articles across the 13-blog strong Boles Blogs Network. We use SocialToo to track people who follow us and, more importantly, people who UNfollow us. Here’s this morning’s UNfollow report from SocialToo and our article yesterday on — Owning the Devil Note — resulted in nine people dropping us:
Now that we’ve established the provenance of United Stage, let’s take a look at some superstar Boles Blogs Network articles that would’ve been originally published here in this blog:
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