Our Blog Is One Year Old
With 2009 now behind us it is time to take a moment to reflect on Singularity Hub’s first year of operation. With our focus on the technologies and innovations that are ushering in a new era of human ability and possibilities, our blog is filling a valuable niche that readers across the world are seeking. Our traffic has grown just about every month this year, and during the supposedly slow December full of holidays we closed the year with our best month ever, bringing in 250,000 pageviews according to Google Analytics.
As we now jump into 2010 I want you to know that things are only going to get bigger and better here at the Hub. More stories, more writers, more features, more ideas, more everything! I want to thank every one of our readers for your support and interest in our blog. 2010 is going to be an awesome year and you won’t want to miss it!
Although technically I wrote Singularity Hub’s first blog post on July 8, 2008, I did not pursue the Hub as a fulltime professional endeavor until January 1, 2009, and it is thus that day that I mark as the birth of our blog. During the operation of the blog in 2008 I was a fulltime high school physics and chemistry teacher and the blog was a neglected child, at one point going more than a month without a single post. Being a high school teacher was a fantastic career and I highly recommend it as a noble and rewarding pursuit to anyone interested. Nevertheless, at the end of 2008 I could no longer resist my passion for this blog and so I left teaching to work full time on making Singularity Hub what it is today.
During the beginning of 2009 this blog was a one man show, with me being responsible for writing all of the posts and performing all of the configuration, design, and maintenance of our site. In an effort to bring in more ideas, more talent, and more content to our readers, I soon brought on several other excellent writers to join the cause. Not only did our content offering multiply in quality and quantity as a result, but I was now able to spend more time focusing on other aspects of the blog – improving its speed, orchestrating a major redesign of the site through our excellent partner yourcustomblog.com, and adding features such as twitter and facebook based login.
When it comes to our writers, a big shout out is due especially to Aaron Saenz, who now works full time for the Hub as a talented and prolific writer. Aaron has been busting out top notch stories for the Hub for the better part of 2009 and he will do more of the same as we jump into 2010. A big thanks is also in order for the part time writers that have written for the Hub this year – Drew Halley, Andrew Kessel, and Steven Wasick.
As I stated earlier, in 2010 we will have more content – and the quality of this content will be better than ever. In addition, I expect that we will schedule some meetups this year with interested readers and we will innovate new ways to further engage with you. We are always open to your ideas, tips, flames, whatever…so please don’t hesitate to drop me a line at keith.kleiner@gmail.com or to post a comment to this post or other posts as you see fit. In the meantime, lets enjoy 2010 and may the Singularity be near and not far!
Tags: first year, singularity hub, the hub, year review
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Wait, I thought we were awaiting the singularity but not looking forward to it. The singularity will hold risks as significant as benefits, and the power it will unleash could advance our civilization or end it.
“awaiting the singularity” might indeed be a more appropriate description than “looking forward to the singularity” for most people. I however tend to be one of those optimistic and curious people that can’t wait for things, even if they seem a bit dangerous. The singularity offers amazing possibilities for good and for bad, but either way I really can’t wait to behold it.
For things that are inevitable, such as getting in to work on Monday, doing the laundry, paying taxes and yes – the arrival of the singularity – I tend to not worry about delaying them. They are coming whether you like it or not, so you might as well get on with it.
Well done to Keith and the team!
All the best for 2010 guys; I thoroughly enjoyed your content in 2009 and look forward to more of the same in the coming years!
I think this is an excellent blog, but I’m very surprised that it generates enough money even for one person to have it as a full time job.
Hah ha! Who said the blog generates enough revenue to cover a person’s salary! Sadly this blog is burning an ever larger hole in my pocket everyday, but I really love this blog and I plan to push it forward anyway. Hopefully the money to cover salaries will come eventually.
congrats guys. keep the interesting reads coming!
Congratulations, you will no doubt have a plethora of stories to follow in 2010. I look forward to reading them.
I love this site and get a lot out of it.
Congratulations on a year of documenting the oncoming Singularity.
Thank you!
(more robots please!)
Congratulations indeed. Yours is the only blog I regularly read, and as such I frequently forward its topics—and the Web site as a whole—to colleagues and family members (many of whom have health problems). I appreciate your diligence.
If you need a copyeditor, you should contact me.
Keep up the good work! Congrats!
Congratulations! I love this site… it’s bookmarked as one of the eight most frequently visited sites on my Google Chrome homepage.
Congratulations on birthday number 1! This is the best blog on the web for anyone looking for unique content focused on new and upcoming technologies. The articles are very well written and engaging and I look forward to more content in the future. Thank you all for your commitment to this endeavor.
Thank you! and Congratulations!
After reading the “Singularity is Near”, and other such things recently, I stumbled on to your site and have been a daily visitor. Love it.
Seems like most of the write-ups have been by Aaron Saenz. Thanks Aaron!
Happy Birthday! Love you!
Congrats, Singularity Hub! Definitely one of my favorite blogs, my go-to spot for all the amazing stuff that’s happening with technology.
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