Promoting ODF (OpenDocument Format),One year ago today, the first post in Open Malaysia blog was entitled For the times, they are a-changin'... from Bob Dylan's song. Let's celebrate our blog's birthday with the song -- play this video of an ad from several years back that I found in my archives:
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In that first post I said, "As this Open Malaysia blog unfolds, over the coming months and years we will witness more changes, but there will be obstacles, e.g. FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt)."
What a year! 194 posts, 163 comments and over 32,000 visits (by Sitemeter) later, Open Malaysia has indeed chronicled, debated and discussed FUDs and changes in the openness and freedom scene, especially in the Malaysia setting. Open Malaysia has had an increasing readership, been linked in several other bloggers' posts or online news and appeared in quite a number of blogrolls.
I feel however small a difference Open Malaysia has made to the cause for openness and freedom has been worth it. Fellow authors at Open Malaysia and esteemed visitors and readers, you be judges, too -- comment below on what you feel about Open Malaysia at one year old.
Thats 0.53 posts a day
Or about 1 post every 2 days
With 0.84 comments to every post.
With about 87.7 visitors per day.
Happy Birthday!
Posted by: aizatto | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 09:44 AM
I didn't quite get the Hollywood cuts: it looked cheesy and amateurish.
But I appreciated the Ghandi, MLKing, Tiannamen and Mandela footages which punctuated the changing times those folk catalysed.
Such a timeless and powerful song.
Oh, and Happy Birthday OpenMsiaBlog!
"Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
Theres a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your Windows (tm)
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
yk.
Posted by: yoonkit | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 10:45 AM
Congratulations!
I've enjoyed reading Open Malaysia both for the depth of your analysis as well as your feisty spirit. Open Malaysia always brings a smile when I read it.
I'm looking forward to another year.
Posted by: Rob Weir | Thursday, 17 May 2007 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations!
Happy Birthday!
Keep it up!
Looking forward to seeing Malaysia adopting ODF format as standard by the next happy birthday...
Posted by: ClearFlow | Friday, 18 May 2007 at 02:00 PM
Happy birthday!
May the ODF be always with us ;)
Posted by: Mohd Irwan Jamaluddin | Friday, 18 May 2007 at 09:05 PM