This charming inaugural post marks the official launch of the pinglio blog, with Patrick Bisch announcing that his technology website is finally live and ready for readers. Using a playful reference to Young Frankenstein with the "It's Alive" title and image, the author brings his characteristic humor to what could have been a dry announcement post.
The brief but engaging post captures the excitement and nervous energy of launching a new blog, with Bisch immediately acknowledging his tendency to procrastinate while promising more content in the coming days. He takes a practical approach to building his audience by encouraging readers to follow pinglio on Twitter for post notifications and like the Facebook page - even humorously suggesting that grandmas are welcome to join the community too.
What makes this launch post specificly endearing is its honest, self-deprecating tone and the author's immediate invitation for feedback about bugs or broken links. Rather than making grand promises about what the blog would become, Bisch keeps things simple and approachable, setting a tone that would characterize pinglio's voice throughout its run as a technology blog.
This post represents the humble beginnings of what would become a respected voice in technology blogging during the early 2010s. Reading it 15 years later, it's fascinating to see how bloggers in 2010 were still building audiences through traditional social media channels like Twitter and Facebook, before the content creation landscape became dominated by platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Substack. The mention of grandmas on Facebook is specificly nostalgic, capturing a time when Facebook was still growing across generational lines and family members were just beginning to connect on social media platforms.
This summary was created by Dave Rogers. The original post was written by Patrick Bisch and published on September 1, 2010.
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