The first thing I ever published, if truth be told, was a book of poems I wrote in my idle hours as a teenage schooler! But somehow that didn’t survive so I got nothing to show from those many creative hours.
What is irrefutable is the fact that I published the UK’s first Black internet site in October 1994 although I credited it from February 1995, on or around February 6, Bob Marley’s birthday.
[UPDATE: March 14, 2009 at 09:02] Actually, We didn’t call ourselves ‘Black’: that was the mainstream media’s title for us. We actually marketed ourselves as a ‘street culture magazine’. But they went with what they thought best. The publicity certainly helped!
[END UPDATE]
I didn’t realise at the time that I was the first to do this since I was working in the dark about my directions and was powered by cheer love and determination.
Since then I have published several other websites. These include:-
- Yush, Britain’s first street culture site.
- BlackMag, a leading black news portal.
- Gwaan, a search engine.
- Michael Conally, this personal website!
There are many more sites to come. Watch this space!
Posted by Michael at 14:30:18 on November 21st, 2008 in Publisher
