20 Years of Blogging Milestone - On The Web - February 2024
Today marks two decades of blogging on JakeParrillo.com. Twenty years. Plenty has changed since I fell in love with the Web via political blogging. I've met some good friends, have earned jobs, *almost* compelled Da Coach Mike Ditka to run for US Senate and was allowed to flex my writing muscles via my own online diary. My goals have changed over the years, too. From being a member of the "Blogosphere" and linking to other bloggers/getting links from other writers to distributing the content via both feed and email newsletter to attempting to monetize things via AdSense and FeedBurner (hey!!!) ads to what I've shifted to over the past 10-or-so-years: writing mostly for an audience of one: myself. Somewhere over the years, I dropped having ads and when FeedBurner email newsletters were sunset, I, too, sunset having my daily blog posts distributed beyond this little place on the Web. My very first post - basically my own "Hello, World" was posted on