My 19th year blogging anniversary. Whoa…

Today marks my 19th anniversary of blogging – 19 years! When I started blogging, I had never heard of a blog. I read about it in a marketing magazine and the idea seemed silly. Who would want to read my diary?

So I tasked an intern that worked for me – a tech savvy college kid – to install blogging software for me. That wasn’t an easy task. Now it takes a few minutes. Back then, it took a week.

And then for the formatting, the writing style, the content, I had no examples to draw from. When I say I was one of the first lawyers to blog, I really mean it. A few blogged about how lawyers should market their wares on the Internet – but those “early days” bloggers didn’t deal with the law itself. I may well have been the first to blog about legal substance.

Funny enough, Jim McRitchie began posting content on his “CorpGov.net” site starting in 1995 that was akin to blogging because Jim listed his content chronologically (but Jim didn’t use blogging software until later). Jim was truly ahead of his time.

Anyway, here is my first blog. No title. And a “tongue in cheek” reference to “hype” about blogging. No one had heard of a blog back then. It seemed like a made-up word – and it was! Any word is “made-up” when it’s first coined…