Six months is a long time in blogging (to coin a phrase), and I’ve read a lot of posts recently from people making the 6 month mark with tens of thousands of hits, tons of RSS subscribers etc. Oh well.

But what were people talking about 6 months ago? Lets see….

• RT was professing his love for the Philippines, and doing his best vampire impression to keep out of the heat-have you acclimatised yet RT? He was also knee deep in the hoopla-what ever became of that?
• Maki was informing us how to make money by hacking MyLot , which wasn’t as nefarious as it sounds and also gave me my first heads-up on Agloco - where did that go? (still in beta hell I think). I think Dosh Dosh was still on Blogger then too.
• Matthew Jabs was telling us to eat local organic produce, which is something we as a family have been doing for a while now. It tastes a million times better, isn’t any more expensive and isn’t likely to mutate into anything horrible: A win win win situation? He also gave us a heads-up on the excellent Foxit PDF reader which is way better than Acrobat, and has been my reader of choice for a while now.
• Josh was asking whether blogrolls were dead, and whether or not he needs one. I’ve read conflicting arguments on this one, and for now I’m happy to keep mine. It is maintained on a single page now, rather than being blog wide.He was also suffering some serious Apple problems, and was at that time advising us to stick with our PCs. No problem there Josh, I’ve never managed to maintain the sustained level of smugness required to be an Apple user
• Finally, the Curmudgeon was short on Christmas cheer dealing with teens & post teens, and relates a happy tale of him throwing all of his toys out of the pram over a slight lack of unleaded in the family wheels. Still, at least he had the pleasure of being interviewed for the position of Cook County associate judge. By all accounts it was like deja vu all over again.

Six months, wherever did it go?

I’ve always enjoyed reading the archives of my favourite blogs, and as time goes on, there’ll be something quite substantial to look through. It’s always interesting how the style of the blogger changes as they gradually gain an audience, and I don’t think I’m any different.

What were you blogging about 6 months ago, and how have you changed as a writer? Drop me a comment or a pingback, and lets all have a trawl through your archives!