Six years ago today I started this blog.
Over that time I've gone through four designs, written 1,429 entries (including this one) and gotten 5,504 comments (some of which are certainly spam). I've made countless friends, launched a global coffee meetup and a little brand research tool that went on to collect millions of perceptions.
It's helped me get jobs and is even responsible for me meeting my wife. I still am amazed every time someone tells me they enjoy my writing or takes the time to leave a comment. All the talk about blogs being dead is just dumb. While the blog as we knew it may not ever reach the mass that once seemed promising thanks to countless offshoot platforms, it's still alive and well here and elsewhere.
Mostly I just want to offer a heartfelt thank you for finding this, sticking around, reading, commenting, emailing, meeting up for coffees and beer and just generally helping me think about the world. As crazy as it may sound, I really can't imagine what my life would like without this site.
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Right. So I'm now married and honeymooned and almost back to reality. Before that, though, are a few days in Cannes for the big advertising festival. (If you're around drop me a line.)
That's pretty much it for now I think. Expect blogging to resume sporadically at first and then back to normal next week. Thanks everyone.
Oh, and sorry about the no guest blogging, apparently there was some technical difficulty.
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I mentioned last week I was getting married and now that that part is complete it's time for the honeymoon. I leave tomorrow and will be away for a couple weeks doing the best I can to not go on the computer.
Luckily for you I've had three very smart guys agree to take over the site while I'm gone: Rick Webb, Joe Liebman and Colin Nagy.
I trust they'll keep things interesting around here until I'm back. See you in July.
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Hey everyone, just a quick note to say posting will be pretty slow over the next month or so as I get married and go on my honeymoon. I may try to talk a few folks in to picking up the slack around here while I'm gone, but I'm not sure I'll actually get around to it.
In the meantime, there are lots of great sites out there to give you your fill of random links and interestingness, including these which I've been especially enjoying lately: The Awl, clusterflock, Scott Rafer's blog, Barking up the wrong tree and Sweet Station.
Enjoy and see you in a few weeks.
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