I started this blog on June 26 of 2006. And in just under 2 years, I’ve got 300 posts.
This has been, hands-down, one of the most important things I’ve done, in both professional and personal capacities. It’s been far more successful than I ever thought it would be (which isn’t saying much), I’ve met some incredible people, and it’s been a great place to have a think or generally just be a ham to an international audience. It’s an outlet for my writing, which has certainly gone downhill in the last year. Somehow more people are reading it, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. And my Mom and Dad both have blogs, as do two of my cousins ( 1 2 ), and one of my close personal friends.
First of all, shout-outs.
Johanna, Seth, Oakie, Noah, Mike, Daniel, Adrian, thanks for being great blog friends along the way. And all those other folks out there that comment, thanks to you all, too.
Thanks to more people than I can list for being inspirational. And to my employers for being more than cool with the whole blog thing.
And because this is a self-centered post, some of my favorite posts.
1st Post (Self-Explanatory)
Creative 2.0 (A shout-out to Armano)
Burger King Outdoor (First big traffic bump from Advergirl)
Plan Bonito (Typical pie-in-the-sky junior planner wannabe talk)
Initially, on Identity (Wish I could figure a way to write more about this)
Show the Product Some Love (Hey! The famous Scamp reads this! And shuts me down)
Identity, Brands and the Next Generation (Thought I had something here)
Dogtown and Environmental Power
Officemax: TUL Pens (Great blog interaction from Officemax peeps)
APSotW: Maple Syrup Propositions (Iffy but fun)
Egotastic: BusinessWeek Pickup (Lame self-promo)
Anyway, thanks again, hope you keep liking this. I know I do.
Comments
Congrats Clay! Glad that our paths crossed!
Nice job. Now you get to kick lesser blogs into the Pit of Death.
and, I think that perhaps I am your number one reader. Great job Clay.
Michael -
Absolutely, likewise. And thanks.
Chris -
Was trying to find an appropriate graphic but didn’t have enough time…
Mom -
Yep, am pretty sure you are!
- Clay
I’m breaking my “awesome” boycott to give you a Michael Bay-big a-word. Great getting to know you, dude.
Congrats dude. When are you coming east to hang out?
Congrats Clay. Your posts are really amazing and the 301st will be super great. I am so happy to know you.
If Donna’s number one, I’m close behind. I just don’t comment as much. Was going to say something about only commenting when I have something to say, but that would be over the top.
Congratulations, Clay! I am happy to have you as a friend because of all of this. It’s cool how awesome and rewarding it all feels once you go through older entries and see how the blog has progressed.
Congrats man…blogging ain’t easy…especially while being interesting. Nice work!
Seth… thanks man! I LOVE that ad, by the way. And I fully endorse awesome as an acceptable word choice, by the way.
Noah… Thanks, and congrats back to you for the success of Brand Tags. I hope to be back out to the East soon, we’ll have to catch up.
Oakie… Much appreciated, my man. Hope VCU is treating you well!
Dad… Agreed… the statistics would certainly show that, anyhow.
Johanna… Thanks, and back at you.
Kevin… Thanks for the props!
- Clay
Thanks for the shout out bro! I’m so out of the loop, but checked this out after you pinged me today. I’m actually going to start blogging again soon, so looking forward to commenting on each others sites soon:)