Earth Day = Birthday. AutoblogGreen is one year old today
by Sebastian Blanco on Apr 22nd 2007 at 3:13PM 
Wow, sometimes time just flies by, doesn't it. A year ago, when I wrote the first post* on AutoblogGreen I had no idea where this work would take me and the rest of the bloggers and, of course, our readers. In a little while, I'm going to put up a list of our top stories during this first year, but for now let's reflect on the journey.
We've covered all sorts of auto shows this past year: from Detroit to Geneva, from New York to Santa Monica. We got caught in the alphabet soup of AFVI and EDTA, two organizations that are doing quite a bit to further the technologies we talk about a lot here on the site. I won't list all of the features we've had over the past year, because we keep a constantly updated list here. In short, it's been a big year and we thank you for stopping by and participating. And thanks to all of the newsmakers for their engineering skills and (sometimes) crazy ideas of how to get us from point A to point B without making as much CO2.
Looking forward to keeping the journey going...
(* actually, we had some posts up starting on April 18th last year, but we didn't really publicize our presence until last year's Earth Day because we wanted to have some content before opening the doors)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
John Neff 4:31PM (4/22/2007)
Happy Birthday AutoblogGreen, Sebastian and team. The site has come such a long way in one year, and Sebastian has done a great job building a site and assembling a team that seriously produces some of the best content on the Weblogs, Inc. Network, if not the entire web. The next year will be even more amazing, I know it.
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John Rowell 4:43PM (4/22/2007)
Happy birthday! Can't believe my favorite clean car blog is only one year old. I'm sure it's been an exciting first year, and your second year will be even better.
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Noah Joseph 6:49PM (4/22/2007)
Happy Birthday to our brothers in green. And here I thought that environmental bloggers were delivered by storks...
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kert 2:46AM (4/23/2007)
happy birthday, and i must say you are doing a very good job here.
I used to frequent GreenCarCongress a lot more, but most of the interesting news and more tend come out here now.
If you guys could somehow set up an easy to use and trackable comment system, you'd probably gain loads of popularity.
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Joseph 7:05PM (4/24/2007)
YAY!!!
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Howard Lee Harkness 12:48PM (4/24/2007)
Some suggestions:
1) You sorely need some way to go through long entries with lots of comments other than having to scroll through every page to get to the end. How about something like this: Beginning Prev 1 2 ... 7 8 Next Last -- preferably at the top AND bottom.
2) It would be nice to be able to search for all comments made by a particular person.
3) It would be nice to have an index by title, date, author, and commenters.
4) "Recent Comments" needs to go back at least to the last 20. Better yet, back 24 hours.
5) You need to put permalinks on the front page to all of the stories of the last week or so.
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