{"id":1081,"date":"2006-02-19T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/19\/happy-3rd-b-day-blog\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T17:30:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T15:30:12","slug":"happy-3rd-b-day-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/19\/happy-3rd-b-day-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 3rd b-day, blog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No sh!t. Tomorrow, the NAN blog is three years old! As I write this, we are at &#8220;1,010 posts and 393 comments, contained within 25 categories.&#8221; On February 20th, 2003, I started using blogger in a frame on the front page of this (back then, a very different) site, to say, in <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/20\/blogging-begins-numero-uno\/\">my very first post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, I decided to take a leaf out of the books of <a href=\"http:\/\/goldbergs.com\/\">josh<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/coin-operated.com\/\">jonah<\/a> and start a weblog on my site. This is the first week of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.mcad.edu\/courses_winter03.php#developingonlineidentity\">the class<\/a> I&#8217;m lecturing at <a href=\"http:\/\/online.mcad.edu\/\">MCAD,<\/a> and things are looking good so far. In other news, <em><a href=\"\/gallery\/honx.html\">odys, Nathaniel, hektor, x<\/a> <\/em>goes up in Cape Town on Saturday and <em><a href=\"\/gallery\/odyselicit.html\">[odys]elicit<\/a><\/em> has been selected as an exhibition piece for The Chiangmai First New Media Art Festival <em>[note: used to link, but now dead]<\/em>, Thailand. More to come&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Funny, Josh never really updated his blog (like, three times in 3 years) and Jonah, at that point, really just used it for news in a pop-up (and later down the road started the awesome Coin-Op blog, tho this has taken a back seat to his other great writings for more popular web sites). But hey, I didn&#8217;t know, and wanted to join (what I perceived to be) the cool club! <a href=\"http:\/\/artfagcity.blogspot.com\/2006\/02\/false-starts.html\">Art Fag City<\/a> says that, &#8220;2004 saw the rise of blogs in popular mainstream media, but the art community has started to see this medium explode only recently,&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtaa.net\/mtaaRR\/news\/twhid\/mtaa_rr_birthday_today.html\">MTAA-RR also only celebrated its 3rd b-day this month<\/a>, so I am Mos Def an Innovator (early 2003! do I get double points for being in SA, and kind of <em>still<\/em> being the only art blogger?) and am undoubtedly in good company. (Shout out to Tim &#8211; the &#8216;T&#8217; in MTAA &#8211; wazzup?) I win. W00+.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights of blogging here have been, I think:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kaganof as a one-year guest, now into his own spin-off: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaganof.com\/kagablog\/\">Kagablog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> upgrade (thanks, Jonah!), and I have since designed 3 Open Source &#8211; GPL &#8211; WordPress 2.0 themes:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/20\/wordpress-theme-for-wordpress-15-nan\/\">NAN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/new-wordpress-15-theme-stuttering\/\">stuttering<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/30\/artsemerging-23-wordpress-theme-customizable-and-now-widget-compatible\/\">artsemerging<\/a> &#8211; UPDATED 30 August 2007, now widget-compatible!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Guest blogging (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turbulence.org\/blog\/archives\/000086.html\">the very first!<\/a>) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turbulence.org\/blog\">networked_performance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/27\/blogging-the-commons\/\">Ripping off Lawrence Lessig<\/a> (and him saying he liked it!) on the Blogging the Commons panel at the <a href=\"http:\/\/commons-sense.org\/\">commons sense<\/a> conference<\/li>\n<li>More recently, re-blogs at (just some samples) <a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/fp.rhiz?id=1302\">rhizome<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turbulence.org\/blog\/archives\/002064.html\">networked_performance<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rssjockey.com\/?p=42\">rssjockey<\/a>, features on <a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/woody-allen-nathaniel-stern\">DVblog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>contacts from (and upcoming features in) <a href=\"http:\/\/macformat.co.uk\/\">MacFormat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nyartsmagazine.com\">NYarts<\/a>, <em>Cimaise Art &amp; Architecture<\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/metropolart.com\/\">Metropol<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the launches of <a href=\"http:\/\/saartsemerging.org\/\">SAartsEmerging<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atjoburg.net\/\">@Joburg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/atjoburg.net\/upgrade\/\">The Upgrade! Johannesburg<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Live Kebble and KKNK coverage<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/25\/happy-insert-non-partisan-un-intrusive-secular-holiday-here\/\">announcement of my baby<\/a> &#8211; we now know is a girl &#8211; due 24 May<\/li>\n<li>And so much more I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m missing, so feel free to post your favorites in the comments below. I&#8217;m expecting my current guest bloggers &#8211; not Kaganof &#8211; to feel insulted that they are not mentioned, and am hoping that this may influence them to participate more, and not less&#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not bad for a three year run,  and as I said in the very first post, More to come&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sh!t. Tomorrow, the NAN blog is three years old! As I write this, we are at &#8220;1,010 posts and 393 comments, contained within 25 categories.&#8221; On February 20th, 2003, I started using blogger in a frame on the front page of this (back then, a very different) site, to say, in my very first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,3,27,9,8,2,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-tech","category-creative-commons","category-pop-culture","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-south-african-art","category-technology","category-uncategorical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-hr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/20\/blogging-begins-numero-uno\/","url_meta":{"origin":1081,"position":0},"title":"blogging begins &#8211; numero uno","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 February 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"So, I decided to take a leaf out of the books of josh and jonah and start a weblog on my site. 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