What an amazing first week.
I thought that I would be able to manage all the panels and conferences and networking and still launch The Daily Gotham and do the tweaking and take care of business and what not.
Boy, was I in for a big surprise. Why? Because it did happen. I call on kossaks and netizens from all corners of the web and bit by bit you've come and without hesitation started to post and make this community space happen.
It may be a movie cliché but if you build they will most certainly come. You have come here, you're making it possible. You're making it grow.
So first, off to the thank yous:
I want to first and foremost thanks
kos, for creating the mother of all progressive community blogs. If it were not for this here blog, we would not have people like mole333, lipris, Jane Knowles, BriNYC, Take Back The City and others to be under the same "blog roof". So thanks kos for the daily.
Second, I want to thank all of those who said "yeah!" when I first hinted at creating the site. The list is long, so I'll just post the links to the original articles :
Daily Kos :: To the mayoral hopefuls from the NYC Democratic Party :
Your shenanigans are hurting New York
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/5/3/0647/99136
Daily Kos :: Daily Gotham : Because New York politics needs to get kossacked
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/5/3/16351/75251
Third, I want to thank CivicSpace for putting out such an amazing community building platform; and to the community of developers, designers and people who have come to my rescue, FOR FREE!, to make this site work more effectively.
Fourth, I want to thank some of the people who've helped put out the word about this project:
Ben Smith from The Obsever's The Politicker, who was the first one to report on this work-in-progress.
Susan Mernit, who went ahead and announced it before it actually launched ;)
Another local launch: Daily Gotham goes live in NYC
And all the great blogs that have been linking to us ever since --and yes, even a renegade Republican. Do you think we can win him over? Just the first one's get first dibs! :
Advocates for Rasiej » Blog
http://www.advocatesforrasiej.com/category/blog
(First candidate to link to us!)
Majority Report Radio: hour three - Friday
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/archives/002248.php
Daily Gotham debuts: Corante > Corante New York >
http://www.corante.com/newyork/archives/2005/05/19/daily_gotham_debuts.php
The Lion And The Donkey:Official Blog of the Columbia Democrats
http://blog.columbiadems.org/
New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman ::
Progressive Leadership for New York State
http://www.schneiderman.org/show.php?page=issues&id=26
(First incumbent to link to our blog!)
The New York Connection
http://newyorkconnection.blogspot.com/
Andy Horowitz
http://www.andyschest.com/wp/index.php
http://www.blogparty.org/wp/index.php
post.thing.net
http://post.thing.net/
Cyberjournalist
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/links/002609.php
Pacific Northwest Portal:
Political News From Around the Region
http://www.nwprogressive.org/portal/
(Another DailyKos offspring)
Blogenlust
http://blogenlust.typepad.com/
Friends Entries
http://www.livejournal.com/users/kobenhavn/friends/
WYSIWYG Talent Blog
http://www.wysiwygtalentshow.org/blog/
And the renegade :
Slant Point: Blogging from the heart of NYC
http://www.slantpoint.com/
Last but not least, I want to thank the people who helped put together this blog :
Mark Napier
http://potatoland.org/
(my better-half, my advisor and my babysitter ;)
Martin Sarna
http://www.martinsarna.com/blog/
(our fearless designing leader)
For their technical tips and kudos
Earl Dunovant
http://www.prometheus6.org
Noel Hidalgo
http://www.noelhidalgo.com
Gregory Heller
http://www.gregoryheller.com
And last but not least, to my crew at culturekitchen, Lorraine Berry and Jeff Langstraat, without whom my blog would be nothing these days. Their awesome, right out of the park writing gives me the drive to make The Daily Gotham succeed.
So thank y'all for being making this first week fantabulous first week. If I forgot anybody, please do not hesitate to bitch-slap me and I'll correct my omission ... just be gentle :)