Today is the one-year anniversary of my first day at AOL/Netscape.

More importantly, I've also been blogging for a little over a year. This means that I can start taking the lazy way out and post Lifehacker-esque "Retro Roundup: One Year Ago on Now I Have a Blog Too" entries.

What did I blog about one year ago today? Nothing. I must have been busy with something else...

Some updates on the ScribeFire project that I'm part of:

• There's a new website up at ScribeFire.com - a Wordpress blog with a clean, writing-themed template
• A Support Forum has been launched for ScribeFire help and discussion.
• We're on the verge of releasing our next version - it will be mostly small fixes and preparations for later larger fixes.

I think once this next version gets out the door, we'll be releasing much more often and looking for much more feedback from the community on what they'd like to see added to the tool.

I'm taking some time off from blogging... I'll be back on:

(Check back then... :-)

I've decided that my current goal in life is to someday be cool enough to have a guest blogger on my site. That's when you know that you've "made it."

If you'd like to be my guest blogger, send my a few examples of posts you'd write. Ideally, they should be about me and either be praising my good qualities or downplaying my bad ones. Please also include a $5 registration fee.

By the way, I'm in Orlando this week at a codejam techcrunch scape-con^?. Soon, my MacBook will have singed off all of the hair between the top of my knees and the bottom of my shorts.

Love him or hate him, controversial blog-boss Jason Calacanis knows his linkbait. Brooklyn-born Calacanis, formerly the editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, made a "how-to linkbait me" post on his popular blog, which he writes with his trusty bulldog Toro by his side. (Jason is more recently known for being the impetus behind the relaunch of Netscape.com, which according to some traffic metrics, is now the most popular social bookmarking site on the Web. Kudos to you, Calacanis!)

Of course, I can't mention Jason's blog without linking to this great post from early 2005 where he outlines a typical conversation with a VC regarding the Weblogs, Inc. business. Classic Calacanis! This recent posts detailing what's wrong with PayPerPost is a great read too - his observations are spot-on. Deception never works as a business model. (Or as Jason says, "The fact is no one in the world--NO ONE--wants to be covertly marketed to.")

I remember back in the Silicon Alley days (or the SA days, as we liked to call it), when J-Dawg, Keepsie, and I would hang out late into the night, eating sushi and talking about the last marathon each of us had run. Oh, how we laughed! You might not be able to tell from his blog posts, but Jason is a great guy to just chill out with once you get to know him. Watch out though, because while you're just chilling out, Jason has a way of getting you revved up for the next big thing he's working on. Before you know it, it's 6AM and you've been up all night working on prototypes and proofs-of-concept.

So anyway, back to the linkbait thing. In writing a piece explaining to others how best to linkbait him, hasn't Jason in reality written the most effective linkbait of them all? Think about it - now that people know how to get Jason to link to them, the first thing they'll do is follow the instructions, which include linking to Jason many times over (like maybe to his Twitter page or one of the many Digg articles about him). Now that's smart linkbaiting. The only question is, will anyone fall for it?

I'm kind of bored, so I'm pulling out the old standby that is almost guaranteed to provide some moderately interesting comments - a reader survey! The latest check I did of feed subscribers numbered in the low triple-digits, and I'm curious about what kind of people are reading what I write. So I submit these three questions for your consideration:

1. How did you initially find my site?
2. What would you like to see more/less of here?
3. Do you have a blog (and where is it)?

I've turned off the requirement of filling in your name and e-mail for this post, so giving some feedback should be as easy as ever.

ScribeFire 1.4.0.1 is now available for download from Mozilla Addons. Changes since version 1.4 include:

• Spanish translation
• Support for special characters in Blogger passwords (as mentioned here)
• Added detailed error messages for when adding a Blogger account fails

(ScribeFire, previously named "Performancing for Firefox," is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog.)

Sometimes the pendulum swings the other way: Google in video talks with media biggies at The Blog Herald.

FYI: I've been hired to continue the development of the Performancing for Firefox extension (soon to be rebranded as ScribeFire), so I'll be posting about its progress occasionally.

The Blog Herald brands all of their pages by adding "at The Blog Herald" to the end of their page titles in the title bar, much like I add ":: Now I Have a Blog Too." However, not using any kind of separator between the title of the individual post and the title of your blog can have unintended side effects: FDA Offers Up Another Reason Not To Buy From Spammers at The Blog Herald.