One of the funniest things is looking at the blogroll back then -- just two blogs! A few weeks later it had expanded to four. Good grief -- no wonder it was so much easier to keep up with what was going on in the blogosphere!
Showing posts with label Blogiversaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogiversaries. Show all posts
Monday, September 02, 2013
How it used to look!
This is how it used to look back then (or at least as far back as I can get it on the wayback machine). I must admit that I rather liked the old design, which I hand-coded. That NT Gateway logo was designed by a nice guy called Geoff Love.
One of the funniest things is looking at the blogroll back then -- just two blogs! A few weeks later it had expanded to four. Good grief -- no wonder it was so much easier to keep up with what was going on in the blogosphere!
One of the funniest things is looking at the blogroll back then -- just two blogs! A few weeks later it had expanded to four. Good grief -- no wonder it was so much easier to keep up with what was going on in the blogosphere!
NT Blog's Ten Year Anniversary!
Happy birthday to me! The NT Blog is ten years old today. Its first post in what was then called "The NT Gateway Blog" went out on September 2 2003, Welcome to the NT Gateway Blog. 3,887 posts later and we are still here!
I began this blog as a bolted on extra to the New Testament Gateway which was then absorbing a huge amount of my time. I'd been a fan of Jim Davila's Paleojudaica for a while and one day it dawned on me that I could do something similar. I had never even heard of blogging until Paleojudaica appeared, and it struck me that a blog would enable me to gather together lots of the things that I had been trying to do with the NT Gateway, like drawing attention to great websites and adding "notices" of forthcoming events as well as, at the same time, discussing the New Testament in the news.
As time went on, the NT Blog became bigger than the site that spawned it, and the proliferation of other blogs enabled me to find my own niche. I still wish that I could post more often, but I enjoy the blog, and I enjoy participating in the blogging community where I have found friends as well as some great intellectual stimulation.
I have written so often about the art of academic blogging, its successes and failures, that I don't have anything fresh to add here -- so please check out this cache of posts if you are interested: NT Blog: Academic Blogging.
My previous blogiversary posts are self-indulgently gathered here.
David Meadows celebrates ten years of Rogue Classicism today too -- don't forget to pop over there to thank him for all his great work over the years. If only I had posted so often!
Many thanks to everyone over the years who has offered encouragement and who has commented and provided interaction on the other blogs. There's no question about it -- it's the communal side of blogging that makes it worthwhile.
I began this blog as a bolted on extra to the New Testament Gateway which was then absorbing a huge amount of my time. I'd been a fan of Jim Davila's Paleojudaica for a while and one day it dawned on me that I could do something similar. I had never even heard of blogging until Paleojudaica appeared, and it struck me that a blog would enable me to gather together lots of the things that I had been trying to do with the NT Gateway, like drawing attention to great websites and adding "notices" of forthcoming events as well as, at the same time, discussing the New Testament in the news.
As time went on, the NT Blog became bigger than the site that spawned it, and the proliferation of other blogs enabled me to find my own niche. I still wish that I could post more often, but I enjoy the blog, and I enjoy participating in the blogging community where I have found friends as well as some great intellectual stimulation.
I have written so often about the art of academic blogging, its successes and failures, that I don't have anything fresh to add here -- so please check out this cache of posts if you are interested: NT Blog: Academic Blogging.
My previous blogiversary posts are self-indulgently gathered here.
David Meadows celebrates ten years of Rogue Classicism today too -- don't forget to pop over there to thank him for all his great work over the years. If only I had posted so often!
Many thanks to everyone over the years who has offered encouragement and who has commented and provided interaction on the other blogs. There's no question about it -- it's the communal side of blogging that makes it worthwhile.
Sunday, September 02, 2012
Nine years old today!
Happy blogiversary to me! The NT Blog is nine years old today. The first blog post, back when it was called the NT Gateway Weblog, was on 2 September 2003. I don't blog quite as often now as I did then, but I still enjoy the blog and hope I'll still be here for the tenth anniversary next year.
And it's happy blogiversary also to David Meadows at RogueClassicism whose blog is a few days older than mine.
Previous blogiversaries are self-indulgently labelled here.
And it's happy blogiversary also to David Meadows at RogueClassicism whose blog is a few days older than mine.
Previous blogiversaries are self-indulgently labelled here.
Friday, September 02, 2011
NT Blog Eight Years Old Today!
It's eight years since the first post on the NT Blog, back on 2 September 2003! (Previous blogiversaries). I've had a shocking few weeks for blogging because I am finishing off a book and all my spare time has been poured into that, but I'll be back with regular blogging soon, I hope for another eight years or so.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
NT Blog Seven Years Old Today!
Happy birthday to me, seven years old today. The first post on this blog was on 2 September 2003, Welcome to the NT Gateway Weblog where I wrote that
For the first five and a half years of this blog, I was blogging under the NT Gateway banner, but now, as I hope you know, that has a blog of its own where I post along with Holger Szesnat, mainly on new internet items of interest that appear on the site. So this is the first full year of the morphed NT Blog and I continue to work on my NT Pod too, a podcast that now has forty episodes and is just over a year old.
Thanks for the continued encouragement and support for these seven years. Here's to the next seven!
I've been inspired to set this up by Jim Davila's fine Palaeojudaica weblog at http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/, not least because of a comment he made in that recently that it would be helpful to have more people doing the same kind of thing. I've very much enjoyed reading his blog over the last few months and while I doubt I will be able to do as good a job as he, I am nevertheless encouraged to try something similar myself.Well, Jim's still at it, I'm still at it, and now there are lots more people too, as well as many others who have come and gone.
For the first five and a half years of this blog, I was blogging under the NT Gateway banner, but now, as I hope you know, that has a blog of its own where I post along with Holger Szesnat, mainly on new internet items of interest that appear on the site. So this is the first full year of the morphed NT Blog and I continue to work on my NT Pod too, a podcast that now has forty episodes and is just over a year old.
Thanks for the continued encouragement and support for these seven years. Here's to the next seven!
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
NT Blog Six Years Old Today!
Happy birthday to me, six years old today. The first post on this blog was on 2 September 2003, Welcome to the NT Gateway Weblog where I wrote that
This last year has been one of the most important of the six, not least because half way through the year, the old NT Gateway blog morphed in to this NT Blog, taking the archives with it and migrating to a new URL. At the same time the NT Gateway, which stayed at its old URL, NTGateway.com, had a major reboot as I went into partnership with Logos. The improvements to the NT Gateway continue, and you can follow all the progress over on the NT Gateway blog which launched in February along with the new site. There are several exciting developments to come there over the coming weeks. (February was the big month -- Developments at the NT Gateway; Blog changes; New Blog URL; Blog Migration Success; New NT Gateway site launched; New NT Gateway now live).
The other development around here over the last year or so has been the launch of my NT Pod over on http://podacre.blogspot.com. I began this project after experimenting informally with a podcast in teaching last semester. There are ten episodes of the NT Pod so far, and it's something I am enjoying. As regular readers will know, I sometimes post programme notes here on the NT Blog too.
Many thanks for the support and encouragement over the last six years. I wonder if I will still be blogging in 2015?
I've been inspired to set this up by Jim Davila's fine Palaeojudaica weblog at http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/, not least because of a comment he made in that recently that it would be helpful to have more people doing the same kind of thing. I've very much enjoyed reading his blog over the last few months and while I doubt I will be able to do as good a job as he, I am nevertheless encouraged to try something similar myself.Well, there are a few more people blogging now!
This last year has been one of the most important of the six, not least because half way through the year, the old NT Gateway blog morphed in to this NT Blog, taking the archives with it and migrating to a new URL. At the same time the NT Gateway, which stayed at its old URL, NTGateway.com, had a major reboot as I went into partnership with Logos. The improvements to the NT Gateway continue, and you can follow all the progress over on the NT Gateway blog which launched in February along with the new site. There are several exciting developments to come there over the coming weeks. (February was the big month -- Developments at the NT Gateway; Blog changes; New Blog URL; Blog Migration Success; New NT Gateway site launched; New NT Gateway now live).
The other development around here over the last year or so has been the launch of my NT Pod over on http://podacre.blogspot.com. I began this project after experimenting informally with a podcast in teaching last semester. There are ten episodes of the NT Pod so far, and it's something I am enjoying. As regular readers will know, I sometimes post programme notes here on the NT Blog too.
Many thanks for the support and encouragement over the last six years. I wonder if I will still be blogging in 2015?
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Five years old today
Monday, September 03, 2007
Happy blogiversary to me
Happy fourth birthday to the NT Gateway blog! It's birthday was actually yesterday, but I was away from the blogging machine and so unable to celebrate. This blog began on 2 September 2003 and there have been 2,599 posts since then.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Happy Blogiversary Paleojudaica
Happy Blogiversary to Paleojudaica, four years old yesterday. Paleojudaica is why I started blogging three and a half years ago. It's still going strong, and may it have many more blogiversaries in years to come.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Three years of Hypotyposeis
Happy blogiversary to Hypotyposeis. Stephen Carlson's blog is always at the top of my blogroll, which means it's always the first I look at when it has something new.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Three years old today
Happy blogiversary to me: the NT Gateway blogt is three years old today. The first post, Welcome to the NT Gateway Weblog was on 2 September 2003.
Update (15.44): And happy blogiversary to rogueclassicism too, also three today. In comments, Tyler asks if I'm the first that's still up and running. No -- Paleojudaica is a good six months and more older than NT Gateway Weblog. And speaking of Paleojudaica, thanks a bunch for the nice picture and message from Jim, along with my two former Birmingham graduate students Helen Ingram and Catherine Smith. (I wish I was there too!).
Update (15.44): And happy blogiversary to rogueclassicism too, also three today. In comments, Tyler asks if I'm the first that's still up and running. No -- Paleojudaica is a good six months and more older than NT Gateway Weblog. And speaking of Paleojudaica, thanks a bunch for the nice picture and message from Jim, along with my two former Birmingham graduate students Helen Ingram and Catherine Smith. (I wish I was there too!).
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Dave Black on-line
On Biblaridion, Bryan mentions Dave Black Online, a site I have visited before but tend to forget to go back to because of its lack of RSS feed. But it's nice to see a "Happy blogiversary" to me a couple of weeks ago (no permalink), especially as I'll be headed in that direction (North Carolina) before long. So any chance of an RSS feed, Dave, and then I can read your blog every day, and add it to my blogroll?
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Happy blogiversary to me
The NT Gateway Weblog is now two years old. It began on 2 September 2003. 1786 posts on and I'm still enjoying blogging. Thanks for reading and supporting the blog.
Friday, August 12, 2005
Ricoblogiversary
Happy blogiversary to Ricoblog, , which is a year old today, and has a nice summing up post and which is kind enough to mention links here. We are all looking forward to the second year.
Thursday, May 12, 2005
Happy Annivesary Biblical Theology
I was in Glasgow examining yesterday, so missed the chance to say Happy Blogiversary to Jim West's Biblical Theology. Jim has carved a real niche in the biblioblog world over the last year (I'd have guessed it was longer thatn a year) and I'd say that one of his great skills in getting the information out to the punters quickly, efficiently, without fuss or fanfare. He could well add "Read it here first". It's often the first place I see things. And often I am grateful to Jim for covering something so that I feel I don't need to! Keep up the good work, Jim -- it's appreciated.
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Happy birthday Paleojudaica
I'd like to join the others who are wishing Jim Davila a welcome Happy Birthday to Paleojudaica, now two years old. I look forward to the forthcoming article in the SBL Forum that he mentions.
Monday, September 06, 2004
Birthday wishes
Thanks very much to Jim Davila for his birthday greetings for this blog, one year old last Thursday. I should mention a small typo -- it is, of course, the blog that is a year old and not the New Testament Gateway, which is roughly seven years old.
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Happy birthday Paleojudaica
Jim Davila's Paleojudaica blog is a year old today (well, now yesterday). Many happy returns. I began reading Paleojudaica from the beginning and it was the direct catalyst for the creation of the NT Gateway blog several months later. Jim has put together an enjoyable retrospective with links to some of the most popular, interesting and recurrent postings. He also reflects on the blogging experience and has some interesting thoughts. This rule is particularly useful:
Jim also suggests being wary of sarcasm, which does not work so well in the blogging realm. Agreed -- and also with humour generally one has to be careful. The only thing I'd add from my own experience is that one can get a little too self conscious if one is not careful and one of the keys to successful blogging is to be able to push postings out reasonably frequently in a relaxed enough way. I actually don't want to be spending a lot of time making sure that I've got this potential nuance or that possible reading exactly right. If I were to do that, I'd only ever be blogging and really would have no time for all the teaching and admin. I have to do, to say nothing of trying to eek out some time to research and write. So if people don't like what I write, they can send an email or post a comment. And it sometimes happens that I feel suitably chastened by something someone points out, e.g. I used an unfortunate turn of phrase a couple of weeks ago when commenting on The Passion of the Christ and I was pulled up on it.
Jim also mentions that he has learnt about the shoddy level of some journalism. Agreed. I very much like the way that Jim takes seriously the blogger's prerogative -- and especially the academic blogger's prerogative -- of calling journalists to account. Of course they make mistakes; we all do. The key question is whether they have the humility to correct them and learn from them.
Thanks, Jim, for some useful thoughts. And may Paleojudaica long continue to prosper.
I've made a rule for myself that when I disagree with someone, I always try to imagine that I'm in the same room with the person, speaking to them face to face, when I compose the entry. That helps me keep to the point, stick to the facts, and avoid personal attacks.That's something scholars in their criticisms of other scholars in printed work would do well to remember too. One of the things that I've found striking about blogging is that people actually read what you say and so you do become conscious of your audience. I've learnt that any remark I make here might well get read by one of the people whose work I am criticizing -- and that is a very helpful thing to have in your mind. My hope is that that consciousness will also improve the quality of one's published work.
Jim also suggests being wary of sarcasm, which does not work so well in the blogging realm. Agreed -- and also with humour generally one has to be careful. The only thing I'd add from my own experience is that one can get a little too self conscious if one is not careful and one of the keys to successful blogging is to be able to push postings out reasonably frequently in a relaxed enough way. I actually don't want to be spending a lot of time making sure that I've got this potential nuance or that possible reading exactly right. If I were to do that, I'd only ever be blogging and really would have no time for all the teaching and admin. I have to do, to say nothing of trying to eek out some time to research and write. So if people don't like what I write, they can send an email or post a comment. And it sometimes happens that I feel suitably chastened by something someone points out, e.g. I used an unfortunate turn of phrase a couple of weeks ago when commenting on The Passion of the Christ and I was pulled up on it.
Jim also mentions that he has learnt about the shoddy level of some journalism. Agreed. I very much like the way that Jim takes seriously the blogger's prerogative -- and especially the academic blogger's prerogative -- of calling journalists to account. Of course they make mistakes; we all do. The key question is whether they have the humility to correct them and learn from them.
Thanks, Jim, for some useful thoughts. And may Paleojudaica long continue to prosper.
Tuesday, September 02, 2003
Welcome to the NT Gateway Weblog
Welcome to the new weblog for the New Testament Gateway. I've been inspired to set this up by Jim Davila's fine Palaeojudaica weblog at http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/, not least because of a comment he made in that recently that it would be helpful to have more people doing the same kind of thing. I've very much enjoyed reading his blog over the last few months and while I doubt I will be able to do as good a job as he, I am nevertheless encouraged to try something similar myself.
I've also been conscious recently of having struggled to find the time to update the New Testament Gateway as regularly as I used to do and as regularly as I would still like to do. Having a weblog as a sister for the NT Gateway proper will enable me to combine several operations into one: (1) I will use the blog instead of the clunky Logbook , which has always been something of a bind to keep up to date. Often when I add a new link, I have to make three separate changes, to the main index page, to the logbook and to the page in question -- and this is pretty cumbersome. (2) I can replace the newsletter service with this blog; (3) I can have a means of getting out important new links much more quickly. For a long time the Featured Links site was updated monthly. Recently, alas, I've not had the time to do that. I think -- I hope! -- a web log will enable me to push out new and interesting links more regularly. But I think overall the web log will enable me to add a new dimension to the NT Gateway and I hope it will be a welcome addition. Please let me have your suggestions for the web log; please continue to send in your new links; and of course keep on sending in those reports of broken links.
I've also been conscious recently of having struggled to find the time to update the New Testament Gateway as regularly as I used to do and as regularly as I would still like to do. Having a weblog as a sister for the NT Gateway proper will enable me to combine several operations into one: (1) I will use the blog instead of the clunky Logbook , which has always been something of a bind to keep up to date. Often when I add a new link, I have to make three separate changes, to the main index page, to the logbook and to the page in question -- and this is pretty cumbersome. (2) I can replace the newsletter service with this blog; (3) I can have a means of getting out important new links much more quickly. For a long time the Featured Links site was updated monthly. Recently, alas, I've not had the time to do that. I think -- I hope! -- a web log will enable me to push out new and interesting links more regularly. But I think overall the web log will enable me to add a new dimension to the NT Gateway and I hope it will be a welcome addition. Please let me have your suggestions for the web log; please continue to send in your new links; and of course keep on sending in those reports of broken links.
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