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High Noon: Idaho Dad’s Blog Turns 5

Posted by DFO

May 18, 2009 11:55 a.m. • 8 comments

There will be no streamers, cakes, or balloons. Honestly, I’m too busy finishing up our last two weeks of the homeschool year to think about any kind of celebration of this blog’s 5th anniversary. Yup, it was five years ago today that I wrote my first post. Things have changed a lot since 2004. What started out as an informational blog about family life quickly changed into a more personal parenting journal, only to change again as we became homeschoolers and I added that to the mix of blogging topics. Life has never been busier, and that has definitely had an effect on how much time I devote to my blog of late. But, at the end of a hectic day, it’s still fun to sit down to share a few thoughts and opinions with other parents, homeschoolers, and whoever else might end up here/Idaho Dad, A Family Runs Through It. More here.

Question: How long have you been blogging? And: If you knew then what you know now, would you have started your blog?

Eight comments on this post so far. Add yours!

toadman on May 18 at 12:03 p.m.
“How long have you been blogging?”

Since June, 2002…and I call it a “journal.”

“If you knew then what you know now, would you have started your blog?”

I would have done things differently, to be sure, but I don’t know anything now that would have stopped me from starting my journal back then….
Escapee on May 18 at 1:56 p.m.
Blogging…I’ve been at it for going on 5 years meself, and I’m closing in on 900 postings. I’m in a lull, though…but still trying for twice a week…
Cis on May 18 at 2:01 p.m.
Since March 5th 2005… so 4 years now…

Would I do it over..yes, as I am in it for the fun.
so far it is still fun.

But when ever I have to run back 4 or 3 years ago, to
find something and re read some of them, I am amazed
at what I wrote. neither,good nor bad, just amazed that I
wrote it.

Will I continue? that was my question this past March. And I still don’t know the answer… after all 5 years should be enough, for nonsense that is in this simple mind….but as long as it is still fun, I might continue.
JeanieSpokane on May 18 at 2:29 p.m.
I’m a toddler myself, starting my blog in February of 2008. I have enjoyed it very much!!! And, yes, it’s a journal of sorts. It’s mostly of memories I cherish of my children and my Dad. I am amazed, too, when I go back and read them - as most of them are really well written or funny. A few are just ok. But such fun!
JeanC on May 18 at 2:38 p.m.
Since January 2005 :D
Tumblewords on May 18 at 5:58 p.m.
My blog has been up a little more than three years with about 700 posts on the main blog although not so many posts on the younger Art blog.

Oh, yes, I’d do it again in a heartbeat. Haven’t learned how to make it earn cash but it does pay mightily in entertainment and cyber friendships.

I’m fairly new to Twitter but post fresh haiku 5 or 6 times a week there. That’s turned into an interesting gig, as well.
Stickman on May 18 at 7:35 p.m.
Probably about three years now, and I enjoy it. I don’t wander much, as I don’t spend much time on the computer. I enjoy the HBO family very much, hence my occasional comment.

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D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.