DemolitionNews is just a day or two away from a major publishing milestone.
It is two years, four months and one day since DemolitionNews.com first threw open its online doors and welcomed the demolition professionals of the world to make use of this online news portal of ours. In the meantime, we have published just under 2,000 blog posts (that’s an average of more than two posts per day, seven days a week, 365 days a year), attracted readers, comment, support, criticism, two threats of legal action and one of physical violence from around the world. And, despite the best efforts of the banks, international Governments and a few disgruntled contractors, we’re still going strong.
Indeed, in the intervening two and a bit years, we have continued to grow, adding a used equipment area, Discussion Forum, Business Directory and Job Board along the way.
As we have mentioned numerous times, the seeds of the idea for DemolitionNews.com – a single news portal featuring demolition news and views regardless of geographic location or association affiliation – came from John Woodward, the new IDE president, who remains a fervent supporter of this site today. We’re grateful to John for his inspiration, support and his continuing role as our public conscience and moral compass.
But, over the past two years or more, we have picked up more than our fair share of contributors, advisers and – dare we say – fans including some of the biggest names in the global demolition business. They know who they are and we are grateful to all of them.
We are grateful, of course, to our growing number of sponsors and advertisers. To be honest, we would probably do it without them as this site has always been more of a passion than a career. But their financial support has helped make this sustainable as well as enjoyable.
And we are even more grateful to you, our loyal and constant readers who have grown in volume in just about every part of the world that can understand our slightly odd form of English. It is interesting to note that, according to our web statistics, we are attracting more readers in an hour today than we were in a week when we first opened our doors.
So, if you’ve been with us since the beginning, we thank you for sticking with us through our highs and lows; and if you’re new to DemolitionNews…you don’t know what you’ve missed.
