4th Birthday of the World History Blog
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4th Birthday of the World History Blog


On this day in 2003, I first fired up this blog. When I made my first post, I had no idea I would still be at this four years later. This blog has changed a great deal during that time. My posts are a lot different and usually more substantial. I have a ton more readers. The search engines like the blog. And people leave comments.

And I owe all of this to those of you who read this blog everyday or just occasionally. Thank you very much. Your comments and links are much appreciated. It is a struggle to keep posting sometimes but I will stay at it as long as it is clear that people are reading this blog and I am still having a good time doing it.

Will I do this another four years? Time will tell. This blog has changed a great deal in the last four years. I wonder what it will be like in 2011?




- 1000!
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- Coming Anarchy
Coming Anarchy. I found this blog a few weeks ago. I discovered it when I noticed some visitors to the World History Blog were coming from this site. (I guess there is a link here on the large blogroll.) Anyway, I have really enjoyed reading the posts...

- Two Year Anniversary
I note that December 31st is the two year anniversary of the start of this blog. In the last two years, I have changed my blogging style some (more frequent posts and more commentary on sites) but I have kept my basic premise the same. I just want to...

- Fighting Comment Spam At The World History Blog
They will not go away. Despite adding word verification (and required ID's) to stop automated spambots, I am still getting spam in my comments. Apparently the spammers are now creating accounts just to spam. They manually enter the word verification...

- Blog Contributors Grow By One
When I started this blog 4+ years ago I wanted it to be a way to communicate between schools in my district - something beyond the traditional collaborative teams that were then being implemented - as I did not feel lesson planning and great ideas to...



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