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Happy one year anniversary, readers! What began as a cool project to connect friends has transformed into one of the world’s most popular blogs that my parents read! Did you know that, each week, over 1.5 million blogs are updated on planet Earth? Well, The Daily Gumboot is most certainly one of those blogs. And we’re pretty proud of what we’ve accomplished over the past year.
Speaking of which, here is a list of each contributor’s favourite article(s) that they have submitted since The DG was launched on December 1, 2008.
Michelle and I, as we tend to do, have collaborated on our favourite post(s) from the past year. During July 2009 The Bornks! traveled to South America to conduct some investigative journa-blog-ism of Latin American Communities. For your reading pleasure, we have arranged the stories in chapters. Chapter One sets up the trip and makes some predictions. Chapter Two introduces some key characters, Ximen and Martana. Chapter Three discusses the expansive community of Argentina – from East to West and back again. And Chapter Four details the journey home and why people should never, ever go to Lima.
Next up is Editor-in-Controversy, Kurt Heinrich, who selected Part One of his Expat Communities series, which presents some interesting stories about his trip to Japan and, I must say, has inspired some very cool discussion from our readers. Enjoy yourselves.
Ms. Theodora Lamb is right behind Kurt (after all she, not he, is Kurt’s “red-headed partner,” Pete). Theo’s post about nudity in female locker rooms at community centres, well, let’s just say that before we wrote about Stephen Colbert (about his nudity in female locker rooms, actually) Theo’s article was by far this blog’s most popular. The article is called “Let’s Get Naked!” Have fun with it!
When I asked Stewart Burgess – Stewartworks - which article he liked the most, he said something about having “pitifully few opportunities to post because of the Editorial staff’s stance on architecture.” Well, Stewart, that’s why we love your favourite post so much. It’s about you riding a bus!
Our back-end guy (who, yes, has a nice back-end, too), Mike Boronowski, presented an interesting piece on expanding the grey on our local, regional, national, and, yes, global communities.
Finally, this one time, our Man in Nairobi, Kenya Correspondent, Martin Muli, wrote a piece about a seven-day-sex boycott. It is as fascinating as it is fascinating!
Undoubtedly you can see that The Daily Gumboot truly does strive to collect ideas from everywhere. My mission to you, readers, is to check out the articles above and let us know which one you like the best and why. And, after you’ve perused all the supercool words and pictures above, be sure to tell 10 of your friends and colleagues about The Daily Gumboot. After all, we’re all about building community!
Loading ...Thanks for your support and contributions over our first year. We look forward to it continuing for years to come!
- JCH
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There have been so many great articles this past year it’s impossible to choose just one. However, I would like to take a moment to share one of my favorite things about the ‘Boot: diversity. Diversity in contributors, diversity in topics. Locker-room nudity to global travel adventures to political commentary to tupperware? Yes, this blog has lived up to what it set out to do: embrace ideas from everywhere to build community.
A tip ‘o the hat to John and Kurt for all of their creative and logistical visioning and never-ending loyalty and dedication to the Gumboot. You’ve created a machine that will only pick up speed, reach new and far places around the globe, and deepen our understanding of what community is really all about.
Congrats to The Daily Gumboot (and Gumboot staff) for one year of super wicked awesome thoughts on building community – the ‘boot has certainly influenced the way(s) in which I think about community over the past year…one of my favourite moments being the interesting twist on pirate communities in coastal Somalia – a cool way to think about this issue. I also enjoyed the shout out to my pumpkin cheesecake as one of many ways in which one may build thanksgiving community. As I said on facebook, here’s to an innovative and thought-provoking year two!! More excellentness to come, I hope! Happy Birthday DGB!!
My favourite is the bus article because it is logical and funny. That guy should write more just like the Michelle should too. Congrats on a pretty good year I hope the next one is better.
- pete