Toni's blog birthday

Maltamedia today reports the birthday of Toni Sant's celebrated blog. Toni, an old schoolfriend of mine who has encouraged many others to blog including yours truly, started his adventure with blogger on the eve of Malta's accession to the European Union this time last year. In today's posting he looks back on an eventful year for his blog:

No. It's not my birthday today. It's my blog's birthday today. I'm not big on birthdays, but Pierre Mejlak made a big deal about this, so I decided to play along. Why be a party-pooper?Towards the end of April last year I felt a strong need to create an outlet for my ideas about Malta's new membership in the EU. A blog seemed like the perfect vehicle. I had been observing blogs, especially in American politics, for over a year before that. Howard Dean's meteoric rise (and fall) in the 2003/04 presidential primaries was often on my course syllabi for the classes I taught on New Information Technologies and Media Criticism at New York University and Adelphi University.

My dear friend Immanuel Mifsud had also urged me to give some attention to blogs at about the same time. So waiting to set up my own blog was just a matter of delaying the inevitable. The first thing I needed to decide was whether I'd go with Blogger or Moveable Type. For some reason I can't really remember I went with Blogger...


Toni Sant's blog one year on - Maltamedia

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