{"id":13820,"date":"2011-01-04T04:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13820"},"modified":"2011-01-04T04:14:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T02:14:54","slug":"blogging-milestone-5000-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/04\/blogging-milestone-5000-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging milestone : 5,000+ posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you post number <strong>5,005<\/strong>. \u00a0I nearly missed it altogether, so please excuse a not exactly a round number. \u00a0And now, before you throw things at me, let me highlight some disclaimer points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve written more than 5,000 blog posts in my life. \u00a0But quite a few of them went down, disappeared, or are blocked behind corporate firewalls. \u00a0Today&#8217;s celebration is only about my personal blog.<\/li>\n<li>Not all of these blog posts were written by hand. \u00a0Some are aggregates from Twitter, Delicious, or some other third-party service that I used. \u00a0But I count them anyway, because they compensate for those lost posts, and because the spirit of sharing even via a third-party is too similar to blogging. \u00a0I found something worth sharing, I shared it, and it ended up on my blog in one form or the other.<\/li>\n<li>Most of these posts are utter crap that nobody will ever read or use. \u00a0 But I still celebrate them, because I took the effort to write them, and because they were important to me at some point in time.<\/li>\n<li>On top of that, I celebrate all these posts that survived over multiple blog software migrations, hosting changes, restructuring and reorganizations. \u00a0While they are a huge mess that many of you would be glad to throw away, they constantly remind me of all those transformations that I went through. \u00a0And if nothing else, they provide me with an extra leverage in any data organization argument. \u00a0After all, thousands of posts and comments over 10 years of blogging should count for some experience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let the celebrations begin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/5005_posts.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13823\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/04\/blogging-milestone-5000-posts\/5005_posts\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/5005_posts.png?fit=561%2C265&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"561,265\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5005 posts\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/5005_posts.png?fit=561%2C265&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13823\" title=\"5005 posts\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/5005_posts-500x236.png?resize=500%2C236&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/5005_posts.png?resize=500%2C236&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/5005_posts.png?w=561&amp;ssl=1 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, I bring to you post number 5,005. \u00a0I nearly missed it altogether, so please excuse a not exactly a round number. \u00a0And now, before you throw things at me, let me highlight some disclaimer points: I&#8217;ve written more than 5,000 blog posts in my life. \u00a0But quite a few of them went &hellip; 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