DISQUS

Doug Burns · 3 years ago

In the words of Mike Skinner - 'Oy, Oy, Oy!!!' (or, I must protest!). Get me up that list to when I started - March 2005 (I'll let you off the useless two liner from Feb 2005). I don't care how rubbish the Tripod blog looks - I started blogging in March 2005. I don't want to look like another Tom Kyte copycat :-

"The birth of Tom Kyte's blog seemed to inspire a lot of Oracle bloggers to follow suit."

I'm a Mark Rittman/HJR copycat ;-)

Anil · 3 years ago

There's actually a lot of Oracle blogs powered by Movable Type, especially now that our japanese team is partnering with Oracle Japan to deploy Movable Type on the Oracle database and middleware platforms. It may just be that we all see different subsets of any particular blogging community. I think what the list above shows is that most personal bloggers who only want a single blog will choose a free tool, which is why we offer a free version of MT. Most enterprises that want a number of blogs probably would use a different set of criteria and would choose a platform that supports multiple blogs and has more of a focus on management.

Doug Burns · 3 years ago

That's better ;-)

Cheers

Rob Vollman · 3 years ago

It was actually Niall's blog that got me going.

I remember reading about some dispute between Burleson Consulting and Jonathan Lewis on AskTom. Through that I heard about the Oak Table Network, who had a link to Niall's blog. I thought it was neat. I saw similar blogs by David Aldridge and Howard Rogers and thought "hey, if people listen to these clowns, they're surely listen to me, too!" :)

I read well over 2 dozen Oracle blogs on either a regular or semi-regular basis, and I think it's awesome. The more the merrier!

Jeff Hunter · 3 years ago

I had been thinking about blogging for a while, but DKB finally pushed me over the edge in May. Since then, I've thought it was pretty cool, but is challenging to keep the content updated.

Pete_S · 3 years ago

And if Doug can get away with... I beat Tom Kyte by three days....

Mark Rittman · 3 years ago

Hi Andy

Just to add to the Moveable Type question. MT was the blogging platform of the day back in 2003 and the vast majority of "techy" blogs - the self hosted ones, mostly - were on this. All of the Orablogs-hosted blogs are on MT, I presume stuck back on an old version as MoveableType changed the non-commercial license around when they went to version 3.

In my opinion, the reason that Blogger.com became the most popular Oracle blogging platform was because of the "network effect" - you needed a blogger.com username and password to comment on Tom and Howard's blogs, and this username and password gave you a "free" blog which then became the easiest way for all the other bloggers to get started up. Since then, most new people have used blogger.com, or Wordpress, the "spiritual successor" to MT, in that it's self-hosted but has an unrestrictive license.

cheers

Mark

LewisC · 3 years ago

One more set of .02, ItToolbox blogs are on moveable type.

I actually started blogging 1 Feb, 2005 but when I saw ItToolbox looking for bloggers in March, I switched away from blogger.com. I had about 5 or 6 entries on blogger before I deleted the blog.

LewisC

David Aldridge · 3 years ago

I got Pete_S beaten by seven days! That's nearly two months when you account for the timezones.

Paul Vallee · 3 years ago

I think I might have you all beat. I hereby lay claim to having been ... the first Oracle blogger! Although the exact start date has been lost to history, it was definitely all in place by November ........ 1998.

Here's my evidence: http://www.pythian.com/blogs/164/oracle-linux-a...
It's an interesting article about Oracle and Linux and this weeks' events to boot.

Cheers
Paul

raana · 3 years ago

what is the evalution of the term i in oracle?