Kos on "Meet the Press" in August 2007
The internet—and the world—was a very different place on May 26, 2002, when Markos Moulitsas dashed off seven sentences and hit PUBLISH on the first-ever post on Daily Kos. Moulitsas—better known as the Kos in Daily Kos and Kos Media, LLC—will be the first to tell you that he never anticipated what was to come.
And now, we’re just weeks from the 20th anniversary of that iconic handful of sentences. In case you haven’t noticed, we kinda can’t stop talking about it or coming up with ways to celebrate. There are the Koscars and my fun little project—This is My Best—and so much more to come!
Some years ago, I’m told, there was a wonderful series called This Is My Best (TIMB), which encouraged Community members to share one piece of their own writing that they were most proud of, rather than the writing of others. One part self-promotion, one part self-confidence, all parts awesome, TIMB encourages writers to press pause on their roles as their own worst critics and take some time to toot their own horns.
I’m so excited to bring TIMB back for this amazing milestone, and it’s been a blast collecting submissions from the CC Team, our Daily Kos staffers, and you, dear Community.
This week we’re highlighting the writing of our fearless site founder. Since the site, you know, has his name on it and stuff, and he’s written nearly 15,000 posts since that first one, I decided he didn’t have to pick just one story.
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