I first started blogging in November 2005, courtesy Anamika. At that time, blogging was just a way to keep in touch with friends. I chose Yahoo 360! as my platform as that’s the one that all my friends used.
Over the next two-and-a-half years, my relationship with my blog changed. It became the space where I crystallised my ideas, and debated new ones. I became a regular follower of other great blogs, from where I learned a lot. I also saw that my blog could be a great platform for my professional work as well.
But in all this discovery, Yahoo 360! remained my principal blogging platform. This was mainly because most of my friends blogged here. Besides that, there was also my resistance to chance. Meanwhile, more sophisticated blogging platforms continued to evolve in the outside world. I was aware of them, but I still stuck with Yahoo 360!
Now finally, change has been forced upon me. Yahoo 360! will be moving to a new platform, and I will be shifting to WordPress. In the course of the next couple of weeks, I will be moving some of my more treasured posts to from Yahoo 360! to my new blog here.
I’ve already begun to enjoy WordPress and the more mature blogging features here. But, I’d also like to say here’s to An Aside (my blog on Yahoo 360!)… That’s where the journey began.
Now here, on 101dreams, the journey continues.
4 Comments
March 30, 2008 at 5:04 pm
All the best Chris! If things start to really become bad at Y 360! I might just start using the blogging feature on my own website(which is also by WordPress). Like you said, I’m reluctant to change myself!!
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April 11, 2008 at 9:38 am
Gr8 to see u on wp.org
April 11, 2008 at 2:50 pm
@Thejesh: Thanks for stopping by and that welcome.
May 9, 2008 at 6:07 pm
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power – Alan Cohen.