Happy Fixed Blogiversary!

Today is my fixed blogiversary (Feb. 25). My movable blogiversary is Ash Wednesday.

The reason I have two blogiversaries is that I wrote my first post (a review of The Passion of the Christ, which I had just come from seeing) on Ash Wednesday last year, which was Feb. 25th.

It was the day the movie opened, and it seemed like a good day to open the blog I had been thinking about, too.

So here we are, one year out.

In that year I switched from doing a home-designed blog in FrontPage to a professional level blog using Moveable Type. It acquired its own domain name. It migrated from cox.net to TypePad (about 10 months ago). And since that time it’s racked up almost a third of a million hits (will probably hit that mark in about a week), had 1171 posts, 5767 comments, won the best apologetics blog award from CyberCatholics, and evolved from being an insignificant microbe to a marauding marsupial in the TTLB ecosystem (large mammal or bust!).

INSTANT UPDATE: While getting the link for my page in the TTLB ecosystem, I just discovered that we not only have evolved into a large mammal (at least for the moment), we have also cracked the top 1000 blogs in the ecosystem (at this moment we’re #995).

YEEEEEEE-HAW!!!

Thanks, y’all, for making this an extra-special first fixed blogiversary!!!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

8 thoughts on “Happy Fixed Blogiversary!”

  1. Congratuations! I gave up my various Catholic discussion forums for Lent, so you are pretty much my go-to guy for Catholic commentary right now. You never disappoint.
    ‘thann

  2. Congrats on your current large mammal status! Here’s a hope for further blog-evolving success!

  3. Jimmy,
    Your blog is outstanding. I’ve listened to you on Catholic Answers Live for a long time (CA was crucial in my conversion). But from listening to you, I never would have dreamed that you were not only a great apologist, but also an RPG playing, comic book reading, Star Trek analying, science grokking nerd… just like me! 😛
    Thanks for being you!

  8. Congrats, buddy! You have been an inspiration to me for a long time, and now I have been inspired to start my own blog concerning Christianity and the arts (esp. Catholicism and Visual arts).
    Any advice?
    Congratulations, once again, as well as heartfelt thanks. You deserved a nice day off. Hope you enjoyed it.

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