Here is what I wrote about my aims back in my first post ever:
The purpose of this blog is to track information about residential fiber deployments all around the world, examine issues related to fiber-based services, and hopefully generate discussions and sharing of information on this emerging telecom wave.
Thanks in large part to you, my readers, I think I have achieved these goals. This blog has become a large part of my life. It has been many things for me over the last year, mostly an education tool, and a generator of frankly amazing human contacts.
The very topic of fiber-to-the-home has also evolved over that year, and as I was saying to someone recently, when I started this I thought I was adressing a niche in the communications space, but as it turns out the topic became mainstream enough that I still see strong growth in the readership here, and the Fiberevolution Group over at Linked In has between 2-5 requests to join on average every day. One way of another, FTTH is happening, I just happened to start this at the right time (by pure fluke, I assure you!)
As far as fiberevolution goes, none of this could have happened without you, my readers. I know this sounds corny, but you make this tool valuable just as much as I do. You challenge my views, you correct my errors, you point me to interesting news or analysis, you spread some of the more interesting news or analysis I mention, you even spread the april's fools jokes (I hope Openreach doesn't hold a grudge...)
And because you make this happen just as much as I do, if not more, I'm going to ask something of you. The one aspect of web 2.0 that I think is hard to generate is feedback. Overall, there are less comments on fiberevolution than there are posts, and that is, perhaps, the one slight frustration that I have. So on this day, the anniversary, could I please request of you, each and every one of you if possible, to put a comment on this post, about what you enjoy or don't enjoy in fiberevolution and what you'd want to see less or more of.
Please do that. As an anniversary gift to me and the fiberevolution community that you are, effectively a part of!
