I wish you all a very happy New Year. As my daughter commented yesterday, the whole thing is an arbitrary mark, especially when you celebrate 3 new years in a single calender year. Still, it gives an opportunity to pause, take stock at things and plan for the future.
Coincidentally, it has been two years since I started to blog. During these two years, you have given enough encouragement and feedback to make the whole thing worth the while. Two years back, I knew of only one blog – Jeff Pulver’s. Fashioning after him, I stareted to blog. He added my name to his blogroll on day one and he didn’t even have too many links at that time. This was my first exposure to an environment with friendly gatekeepers, but then I attributed it solely to Jeff’s style. Then within a week (or was it the first day itself) Om Malik and David Beckemeyer welcomed me and added me to their rolls. Even at that time, Om was big in the blogosphere and be included in their rolls so soon after launching made me a bit nervous. This kind of open and free inclusion has continued to this date. Andy Abramson (if I remember correctly, he atarted around the same time I did), who writes more prolifically and with breaking news has put out nice words about me – more than I desrve. Martin Geddes’ tagline (“Now if only he’d post more often”) is very complimentary (and truthful). Many of my notes on Skype woould not be considered friendly by many corporations. But Skype added me to their “We read” section (which has been renamed “Friends of Skype”) and even now I am surprised at that. To cap all this, Tom Evslin added me to his roll with a post. All these are instances of “friendly gatekeeper” that is characteristic of Internet. Of course there are many others, but then this post will turn into an”Oscar moment”.
I hope that I will continue to earn your respect and compliments. I am not promising more regular posts – there is no pint in making a promise that I can not keep. But I will strive hard to make post analytical and interesting.
Posted by aswath at January 1, 2006 08:59 AM