{"id":845,"date":"2011-12-09T17:06:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T17:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/?p=845"},"modified":"2011-12-09T17:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T17:09:12","slug":"is-this-a-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/trading-knowledge\/2011\/12\/09\/is-this-a-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this a post?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is a special day on Occams Typewriter. One year ago the site burst onto the blogosphere.<\/p>\n

I had an idea to write a witty history of Occams Typewriter in the form of a Christmas carol, but I didn’t have enough wit. I couldn’t get past the first line:<\/p>\n

O little town of Nature Ne-etwork, how still we see thy blogs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I scrapped that idea. <\/p>\n

Then I thought of just writing a straight brief history. But I didn’t get much further:<\/p>\n

We were a group of people thrown together by chance, a common interest in writing around science and a shared approach to discourse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I scrapped that idea. <\/p>\n

Then I tried the last resort of the tired blogger – put up a word cloud from all my posts over the past 12 months, pretending that no-one’s ever thought of it before. <\/p>\n

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But that doesn’t seem to capture what I have been thinking about in the past 12 months. I thought the word cloud would have a stronger showing from ebooks, open access, journal publishing, and a few other things. I think the reason it doesn’t is because I haven’t been writing about everything I have been thinking about in the past 12 months. <\/p>\n

So I gave up on that idea too.<\/p>\n

There was a danger that this post would join that long list of half-finished posts – partly-realised ideas for posts that I never get round to polishing up enough to publish. But it’s not everyday that you can mark the anniversary of a blog platform so I really have to write something. <\/p>\n

THe best I can do is to to express my gratitude to Occams Typewriter – to Richard for having the vision and setting it up, and to all the OT regulars and irregulars for making it what it is now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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