September 14th, 2007So Long, Spud
Today is sad day in the blogosphere … Nick (aka Spud Oregon) has decided to pull the plug on Nice4Rice.
Nick started the site six months ago to the day in an effort to promote free backlinks at a time when people were practically offering “favors” in exchange for them. With his creation of the unique “Give Rice” plugin, Nice4Rice became an overnight sensation.
I first heard about the site through Ms Danielle and have been an avid reader since. In an odd twist of coincidence, I later learned that Nick was living in the same Japanese city as my fiancee (now wife) and not too far from her home.
On a positive note, this will now give Nick some more time to spend with his family or catching up on sleep when little Rikuto is taking a nap. He still plans on keeping his personal blog going, though there may be fewer posts going forward.
Thanks for all the great posts, Nick. I wish you all the best in the future.
Aww, thanks Jason. It is kind of sad, but we’ll all get over it! To be honest, my personal blog suffered after I started Nice4Rice, but now I’ll have some time to write more Japan and family related posts for it.
I’ll look forward to the posts
Oh, congrats on posting comment #400! For your trouble, I’ll treat you to Starbucks if we happen to run into each other at a Jusco one day
wow.. sad to hear.. i’ve seen some bloggers come and go.. to bad there is no Blog Funeral Home. Where you can retire you blogs… idea?! haha jp
a permanent link to dead blogs. They can have a little celebration as they can go back to reality.
Hey cool, 400th comment! I’ll take you up on that Starbucks offer - we’re bound to bump into each other someday.
aww bummer… but im sure being able to tend to the little one, on top of all of our daily duties, is very difficult. best of luck, spud, i mean, nick!