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<title>Welcome, James!</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2007/04/06/JamesClark</biblioid>
<volumenum>10</volumenum>
<issuenum>30</issuenum>
<pubdate>2007-04-06T06:25:32-04:00</pubdate>
<date>$Date: 2007-04-11 11:19:02 -0400 (Wed, 11 Apr 2007) $</date>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
    </author>
<copyright>
      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
<abstract>
<para>I can think of few people whose entry into the blogging
community I would consider more exciting.</para>
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<para xml:id="p1">In the very early years of the twenty-first century,
when a friend started a blog, the traditional was to
write a post saying a public “hello”. This was both friendly and an
opportunity to share a little linking karma.</para>

<para xml:id="p2">Then somewhere around '04, the floodgates opened and so many
started blogging so frequently that it became impractical to keep up.
The tradition lapsed.</para>

<para xml:id="p3">But I'm not letting this opportunity pass.
<personname>
      <firstname>James</firstname>
      <surname>Clark</surname>
    </personname>
has <link xlink:href="http://blog.jclark.com/">taken up blogging</link>
and <link xlink:href="http://blog.jclark.com/2007/04/do-we-need-new-kind-of-schema-language.html">with a bang</link> too!</para>

<para xml:id="p4">Welcome back, James!</para>

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