this time ~ this space

I’m a member of Blog Catalog and awhile ago I came up with a notion that I shared with other members.

The day I decided to delete a successful blog was a defining moment in blogging for me. Getting my first domain was one too. I think we have all had defining moments but if not then why not make one up and blog it. We all appreciate reading entertaining stories so if you don’t have a post to link to now you could write one. Then I could mesh them together into a post and spread the link love around.

Main Entry: defining moment
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: very crucial moment
Synonyms: climax, critical moment, crunch, decisive moment, loaded moment, moment of truth, point of no return, turning point

Have you experienced a “defining moment” in your blogging or even more than one? If so have you blogged about it? (* Please provide a link to the post if you have blogged on this.)

Here are the results:
Sulz : “i’m not sure if i hit blogging nirvana or any real blogging achievement of sorts, but it was a pretty big deal to have gotten my free css upgrade from wp.com, since i love to dress my blog up. and i also feel very happy that i have regular readers and commenters who interact with me, because i like making friends despite my shyness. yeah, i think the little things count more to me - to have my readers like what i write and become friends in the process. (oh, the times i got links from big blogs like engtech’s internet duct tape were a nice blogging trip for me!)

Shirley: I have had more than one defining moment. When I wrote for riverstyxxx I knew there was no going back. I felt it was worth it if it would help someone else. I ran a contest for my new logo provided by bsilvia graphics-illustrations.com/ in exchange for a link to all 3 of my sites. and then, without asking, someone left a message on my blog that they would like to redo my page for free! This person isn’t a BC member I guess they just dropped into my site. I didn’t write about it but the new set up is at proofpositivity.blogspot.com and this is the site in which the designer came from roarkdesignstudio.blogspot.com/

Jenn : I think one of the more defining moments for me was realizing a platform I was using was just never going to work properly, and I had better make the serious effort and move all of my 90-some posts to a new locale.

It ended up being a wonderful decision because it’s a much better user-experience now, but it was a lot of work.

Of course, I realized that every bit of the effort I put into this is worth it. I wouldn’t trade the sense of community and the ability to communicate that blogging has allowed me to enjoy.

Kevin: Spread the love.

Ekim: Wow, it seems so Dr. Phil and Oprah-esque. I’m not sure what a defining moment is exactly. I think this may be as close as I have ever come in blog form.

Tiffany: I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “defining moment”, but this was my blogging moment of truth.

Earth and Economy: Sorry, this is not about a defining moment in blogging…

My defining moment was when I lost the Pacific Coast Rowing championships (PCRC) in college by one “seat” length. It really made me reassess how giving just a little more can impact a future outcome. Made me relive what would have happened had I trained just a little harder, pushed the team a little harder? Taught me to accept the importance of embracing simply how far you have come, regardless of the position. I find my perspective towards other challenges in life has changed as a result (e.g. climate) because I don’t want to find myself wishing I had only given a little bit more. Losing by a close margin and learning to accept is a defining moment. You pick up and keep going…

Mark Stoneman: I’m not sure this counts, but it does try to ask how the heck I came to do military history clioandme.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/paradoxes/

Daniel: I had a huge, lengthy debate about federalism and sydicalism that involved lengthy back n forth comments.

Robert Stevenson: I felt a bond with the writers here when I wrote this. I guess it’s why I come back every day.

Chris: Mine come from when half of my best posts decided to lose everything after the more tag. I just haven’t felt like really doing it since. But I have thrown everything into my book so perhaps that will spur me on to blog again.

Cooper: Luckily for me, I think anyway, most of my defining moments come in real life, and have no real relationship to blogging.

When I first started blogging, (when there was none of this promote blogs nonsense, when there weren’t ten million blogs a day started and 9 million abandoned or deleted) I was just out there writing, with no intent of having readers or reading others, I came upon the blog of a seventy something year old poet.

I was 18 or 19 at the time. To read this totally awesome work from a 77 year old man in Scotland was as close to a defining moment in blogging as I’ve had.

It made me realize that this blogging thing was unique because I, an 18 year old, could appreciate the unpublished poetry of a 77 year old stranger, post comments on his poetry even, the poetry of some man six times my age. A man I would never probably have even considered communicating with in daily life.

Yea, I posted my first comment ever on that blog, and I realized that blogging was going to be something special.