





This isn't the typical edition of Now I Know. You'll be getting that one tomorrow morning, ET, like you would on any other Friday.



Why am I writing to you tonight? A year ago tomorrow, I sent out



So, thank you for reading and for inviting me to be a part of your day, every day. Thank you for posting about Now I Know on Facebook, Twitter, your blogs, and for emailing your friends about it. I am addicted to checking the subscriber count, and it's always a pleasuring seeing the numbers tick upward. (Okay, sometimes it goes down, and that's tends to bum me out a bit. But I'm getting better at ignoring that!)



For those of you who have shared ideas for future issues or just mentioning how a particular issue resonated with you, again, thanks. For those who haven't, please do! The feedback is always wonderful. And as many of you know, I always try to reply. (I won't be able to reply if you write back tonight -- last year, when I did this, I received about 250 messages back, and Gmail just won't let me reply to many more than that individually.) You've been willing to let me email you. The least I can do is be a real person, and not some nameless, faceless machine. That's why I reply; why all of these come from my personal Gmail account (well, via Mailchimp, which by the way rocks); and why I "sign" every one with a link to my home page. It really is the least I can do. Hi!This isn't the typical edition of Now I Know. You'll be getting that one tomorrow morning, ET, like you would on any other Friday.Why am I writing to you tonight? A year ago tomorrow, I sent out the first issue of Now I Know. It went to 20 people. The June 22, 2011 one went to 5,000. Tomorrow's will go to 50,000. And each one of you is the reason why. For me, Now I Know has been a hobby -- a way to share all the really neat stuff I've come across. I never imagined that there'd be so many of you willing to listen!So, thank you for reading and for inviting me to be a part of your day, every day. Thank you for posting about Now I Know on Facebook, Twitter, your blogs, and for emailing your friends about it. I am addicted to checking the subscriber count, and it's always a pleasuring seeing the numbers tick upward. (Okay, sometimes it goes down, and that's tends to bum me out a bit. But I'm getting better at ignoring that!)For those of you who have shared ideas for future issues or just mentioning how a particular issue resonated with you, again, thanks. For those who haven't, please do! The feedback is always wonderful. And as many of you know, I always try to reply. (I won't be able to reply if you write back tonight -- last year, when I did this, I received about 250 messages back, and Gmail just won't let me reply to many more than that individually.) You've been willing to let me email you. The least I can do is be a real person, and not some nameless, faceless machine. That's why I reply; why all of these come from my personal Gmail account (well, via Mailchimp, which by the way rocks); and why I "sign" every one with a link to my home page. It really is the least I can do.



Again, thank you for being part of Now I Know . It wouldn't be the same without you.



Sincerely yours,





Dan



