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The Yarn Harlot's 10th Anniversary

The Yarn Harlot , Stephanie Pearl-McPhee wrote it was 10 years ago on January 23, 2004 she posted her first blog entry .  That first post listed the reasons she believed she met the qualifications to actually blog about knitting. (Feel free to click on the word Yarn Harlot  above to see her blogiversary post and first blog entry  above to read her first post.) The new post states Stephanie has written over 2,000 posts, started l-o-n-g before Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Ravelry and was forced to learn some HTML and spam control along the way.  The other, less writing intensive options, have cannibalized readers and writers away from the knitting blogosphere; but needless to say, Stephanie blogs on because she has created a huge community of like-minded followers.  Her popularity is very widespread and her followers, although mainly North American, do extend into the entire world. Stephanie looks as if she has a halo surrounding her head All this g...

Knitting Chat Room/Blog Awards

About.com recently released its 2013 Favorite Knitting Website/Blog Awards.  It is called the Readers' Choice Awards.  About.com asks its readers to suggest their favorites in several categories.  Then it whittles down the top responses and asks its readers to vote again.  In the end the finalists are based on popularity with About.com's readers. This year one of my favorites walked away the winner:   Knitting Paradise .  Without any flashy bells or whistles this clumsily organized website, works to engage over 90,000 users to post questions about knitting, (think how do I do this, or what yarn to use for that, or how reliable is a particular online yarn shop) machine knitting, and announce events, exchanges and/or sales.  Knitting Paradise is successful in large part because it is so simple to use.  It encourages those with less than current technical skills to post questions or photos with ease and in most cases responses a...