I don’t know why, but I really get a kick out of negative comments about the site. Like this SU comment:

Mx2 - It’s a great idea, but poorly executed - new content is added too infrequently and in too small a quantity. Adding three new sentences ever four days just isn’t enough to warrant checking back on the site with any regularity.

Dude just caught me during a busy spell. I generally try to get 8-10 sentences approved each weekday, more if I’m feeling generous.

August 9th marked One Sentence’s first anniversary. The year has flown by and it frightens me to think how much has happened in that time.

Of course, here I am ten days late in noting this anniversary. What was I doing on the 9th? Apparently nothing — I didn’t publish any sentences that day, nor did I post the blog. It’s been a busy month!

One other thing that you may have noticed is that there’s a new One Sentence project under way, the One Sentence book! This cute l’il square tome will collect 300 of the best sentences from One Sentence’s first thousand sentences. I’m currently in the process of picking through the sentences (not an easy job!) and putting the book together. I’m shooting to have the book available by December 1st so you can have copies for yourself, friends, and family in time for the holidays. Keep an eye on the blog or the book page for updates as they’re available. I’m really excited to get this project going and I hope you’re looking forward to the end product as much as I am.

Have a good week, folks.

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After briefly looking at Web 2.0 Awards & Webware I went back to Web 2.0. Web 2.0 was easier to look through. Some of the award winners I found rather silly, such as onesentence.org; didn’t see any real reason for this one.

Is it weird that I enjoy these jabbing reviews of 1S?

You may have noticed, last week we hit story #1000^*, which is a milestone of sorts, I suppose.

There will be some more news related to this later this week. But for now, I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you to everyone that’s submitted a sentence. You make the site what it is, quite literally.

Now, let’s get to work on the next thousand.

^* It should be noted that this isn’t technically the 1000th story since there are a few stories that were deleted and not replaced. But, hey, close enough.

A few more interesting incoming links worth mentioning:

• Top 5 Daily put together a nice post linking up and quoting some of their favorite sentences. It’s a shame they feel that “many [sentences] are really lame.” I swear, I try hard to avoid the lamest of the lame!
• Neat-o-rama
• Cliff Pickover’s Reality Carnival
• The Latest at Del.icio.us podcast
• Ryan and Katie’s blog is run by a different Ryan.

There have been a lot of others, too. The traffic this month doubled our previous best by mid-month. Crazy.

Well, not really, because I still have my job. But The Mighty Dooce did send a fair amount traffic One Sentence’s way yesterday via a link in her sideblog. That also resulted in some time on del.icio.us‘ “popular” page. Nice.

While some del.icio.us bookmarkers “doubt the veracity of [the stories'] author(s)” or “think it would work better as a magizine [sic] column than as a website,” one comment really made my day: “Fray.com meets Twitter: one-sentence long true stories. This is the kind of thing that reminds why I work on the Web.” Thanks, Jeremy.

55Friday is featuring their own collection of single, true sentences today. Check them out.

Thanks to everyone else that’s been linking 1S up on their sites, Livejournals, MySpace blogs, etc. Keep the content coming and feel free to drop me a line to say hi or offer any suggestions.

It’s kind of weird to find out you were up for an award after the awards have been given out, but it’s still pretty cool. In this case, it’s seomoz.org’s Web 2.0 Awards. One Sentence placed second in the “Fun Stuff” category, behind Cocktail Builder. I also appreciate the fact that their blurb about the site was only one sentence. See, I notice these things.

Also got a nice mention over on Kris Abel’s blog on CTV.ca. Thanks to Mungo Says Bah for passing the link along.

My new favorite StumbleUpon comment about the site:

“A for effort. D+ for content.”

Another potential tagline!

Nice: One Sentence was linked up on a USA Today blog.

Last week, I quietly unveiled a new feature I’d been meaning to implement for a while: a new “Popular” page. Now, the “Popular” page shows the 25 most popular entries posted in the last 30 days. This is much more interesting than the previous incarnation of the page, which just showed the top 50 entries of all time (and, thus, rarely changed).

Of course, the old page is still around, if you’re interested.

I’m finally getting around to revisiting some of the unapproved entries from early in the site’s life. So, each day when I approve entries, there’s a nice mixture of new ones and ones that had been sitting patiently, waiting for the thumbs up.

Lastly, a couple of nice incoming links:

• It was nice to get a mention from the ever-popular Grammar Girl (man, she’d have a field day with some of the entries I’ve seen!)
• Over on Seasonal Plume, she picks out a few of her favorite sentences