A great day for blogging
So today my new science fiction and futurism blog, io9, went live. It covers everything from hard science to bizarre tales of alien invasion, and is published by Gawker Media. Much to my happy surprise, we had a blockbuster first day — in fact, with over 450 thousand page views as of this writing, io9 has had the most successful launch in Gawker history.
I have been working on this blog incredibly hard for months, and almost nonstop for the past month, with terrific help from associate editors Charlie Jane Anders and Kevin Kelly. So it’s good to see all those months of blogging in the dark paying off! I’m looking forward to lots more blogging about weird science experiments, mind-blowing scifi novels, and the gore-tastic B-movies that make my life complete. If you have any story ideas for io9, or there’s more of something you’d like to see, don’t hesitate to write!
Update: We wound up having 750 thousand views that day. Phew!
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 am
Ah Ha! That’s where you are!
I’d just read about the io9 site on bOING-bOING and was planning on visiting it, now I’m going there immediately.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I’ve been reading io9 since the launch, and its been pretty interesting, but I just can’t keep up with number of posts. There have been 25 posts today alone (and its only 4pm!) Is this going to be the norm? Sure does seem like a lot, and disproportionately adds to my daily blog reading…
February 10th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Yeah, we do a lot of posts — I suggest you subscribe to a partial feed based on a tag you’re interested in. There are directions for how to do that here: http://io9.com/338336/get-a-customized-view-of-io9-with-rss-feeds