It was 20th July 1999 when I first registered the domain name sciencebase.com and transferred my old Elemental Discoveries website from their origins on various hosts to the present science super hub. Don’t the years just fly by? At that time, I was quite serious about building up a science portal (as they were then known) and publishing regular science news, views, and interviews in what would eventually become known as the blogging format. Quite by chance 20th July was the forty-fifth anniversary of a slightly more globally significant event — the first manned moon landing.
When I blogged the 10th anniversary post in 2009, I’d delivered 1600 items on the blog part of the site, plus all the legacy pages before I started counting. The CMS tells me there were almost 2500 items on the blog by July 2014. 1600 in the first decade, and then 900 posts in the last five years. Somewhere the rate went up slightly. Although as of the last year or two my focus has been less on frequent updates to this site and more about fulfilling deadlines for various clients, and my spare time tuning up and snapping photos – hence the recent “rebranding” to Songs, Snaps and Science of this and my social media stuff. [Update: March 2023, 3700 posts on the site, although some have been mothballed and some deleted over the years]
The Science blogging is mostly here on Sciencebase.com and announced on Mastodon, Twitter and Facebook. My photography is most accessible via my Imaging Storm site or on Fine Art America. My music via BandCamp.