I think it’s possible that my colleagues have twigged that it was my 40th yesterday…
And this is, I feel, true:
[![Just another middle-aged mug](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/11/photo-thumb-520x388-2181.jpg?resize=520%2C388)](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/11/photo.jpg)
Adam is a digital journalism lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 20 years, a journalist for 30 and teaches audience strategy and engagement at City St George’s, London.
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15 years ago, most likely at his desk at Estates Gazette‘s then Wardour Street
offices, a frustrated journalist opened Blogger in his web browser. He came up
with a punny name, and started his second ever blog. His first blog, on
Livejournal, felt restrictive. It was clearly a semi-closed,
I may not be a journalist
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/11/journalism-social-media-arbitration.html]
, thanks to the verdict of sites I’ve spent the best part of a decade advocating
that journalists use, but I am most certainly a blogger.
Today marks the 15th anniversary of my very first