15 years of “blogging so you don’t have to”. I had “borrowed” that slogan off another contemporary blogger: Ze Frank – who went on to do bigger things with the net (just in 2005, he was featured in Time Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites.”). Contemporary. I guess it’s a thing now that we are talking of fifteen years.
I’ve already written in previous anniversaries about the first Blogging generation in Malta that came and went with all the enthusiasm of early adopters, early developers and early quitters. After the first four or five years the blogging world became quieter and would only revive in a different, rival, form with the arrival of instagram and twitter.
There has been much ‘repurposing’ of blogs but J’accuse has remained mostly faithful to its original mission of punditry with a twist. Admittedly the lighter side of the blog had to give way to the more serious aspects dedicated to the social and political development in Malta. In many ways J’accuse remained my bridge to being Maltese – to remaining Gozitan – as my life as an expat unfolded in parallel.
The first post on J’accuse seems to be a lifetime away. Here’s to the start of hopefully another 15 years of blogging.
The truth… if I lie.
