Yesterday was my first anniversary. See this and this for more details of what the anniversary was.
A first anniversary is a special day – and hopefully the first of many more to come. But, though it marks a whole year, it is quite a lowly event in the cannon of anniversaries. I checked and found that the first anniversary is deemed to be the paper anniversary, so gifts of paper are to be exchanged. That struck me as very retro and quite inappropriate for a digital hipster like me, fluent in the multifarious ways of online scholarly communication. So I set about drawing up an alternative list. Here is my version of the Twelve days of Christmas the first ten years of anniversaries. Sadly I ran out of inspiration after 8th.
| Anniversary | Old style | My style |
| 1st | Paper | Tweet |
| 2nd | Cotton | Tweet with Instagram |
| 3rd | Leather | Tweet with Vine |
| 4th | Linen | Short blogpost (up to 200 words) |
| 5th | Wooden | Full blogpost (500 words) |
| 6th | Iron | Long blogpost (1000+ words) |
| 7th | Copper | Blogpost with video |
| 8th | Bronze | Guest blogpost somewhere more high-profile |
| 9th | Pottery | |
| 10th | Tin |
I think you could make your own viral video on YouTube as yet another offering. Perhaps involving creative dance of some kind. And lip-syncing.
Congratulations, Frank!
10 could be “3-D multimedia art installation”, or maybe “launch of celebratory website”?
If so, maybe 9 could be “customized Society6 iPhone skin” or something similar.
I probably could come up with more suggestions, but they’d be even worse than these. So instead, let me just say “congratulations!” to you both. I remember your Palladium blogpost well. 🙂
Congratulations!
I think “podcast” needs to be somewhere on your list.
Or perhaps YouTube Video Featuring Gangam Style Dancing – feel free to substitute any equally embarrassing and more contemporary song style there.