The Eighth Anniversary of Portals and KM

On May 2, 2004 I did my first posts. There were three, Is KM the Killer App for Portals?, Some good articles on blogs and blogs on blogs, and Is RSS TNBT? Recently, I passed 725,000 page views and had done over 3350 posts. Since a brief lapse during a trip to Italy in the summer of 2005, I have put up at least one post a day. It has become addictive.

Two people encouraged me to start a blog, Cesar Brea and Jack Vinson and they remain active bloggers. I also attended Dave Winer's sessions at the Berkman Center. Dave has gone but the sessions continue. Writing an article on blogs for Portals Magazine is what got we started with this blog. Writing about web 2.0 inside and outside the firewall remains the core of what I cover during the week. Now I also write for the AppGap on enterprise 2.0.  I also spend almost all my consulting on some form of social business.

Some of my favorite posts are the ones related more to music and food such as: Slow Cooked Ribs and Cajun Music that got me started on the food and music on weekends and Sunday with Ray Charles that got me started on music and non-work topics in the first place. I still get responses to some of these old posts such as the two part series on the Newport Jazz Festival in 1968 and 1969, see Early Newport Jazz Festivals Relived for some of these responses to are The Original Newport Jazz Festival: 1968 and Before and The Original Newport Jazz Festival: 1969 – 1971.

 

Comments

[Rob Paterson]

Wishing you many more years Bill
All the best
Rob

[bill Ives]

Thanks Rob - much appreciated. Bill

[Andre P.]

I read this everyday. I enjoy reading this blog. I hope to continue reading Bill for many,many years. Keep up the great job and thank you for passion for KM.

[Luis Suarez (@elsua)]

Hiya, Bill! My goodness! Has it been that long already?!?! Amazing stuff! Congratulations and many many happy returns! Thanks much, Bill, for allowing us to have a peek into your ideas, thoughts, experiences, know-how, i.e. your brain, etc etc ;-)) It's been a pure delight and I still remember how it was thanks to you, Jack, Jim McGee and a few others that I got blogging myself externally around October 2005! Good times ever since!! Please do keep allowing us to learn even more from your blogging!

See you in Boston in June! :-D hehe

[bill Ives]

Luis and Andre

Thanks for your kind thoughts and Luis, I look forward to seeing you soon in Boston. Your continues to be an inspiration to me.

[bill Ives]

Luis - I left on a kind word in my comment above. - your blog continues to be an inspiration to me but I could fill in a lot of other things as well. :)

[Luis Suarez (@elsua)]

Hi Bill, awww, many thanks for those kind comments! See? This is one of the things that I truly find inspirational about the Internet Blogosphere and that it's hard to see elsewhere, specially, nowadays: mutual nurturing of the mind with some amazing cross-inspirational ideas! Likewise, my friend, and can't wait to see you in Boston soon for a much proper F2F catch up! :)