DoggieNews celebrates its 2nd birthday today. It was June 1, 2004 that we went online.

That's what we originally looked like, there on the right.

We started out publishing "how to" articles and announcements from press releases. It wasn't until November of 2004 that we converted it to a blog.

Since then, DoggieNews has grown quickly. Last month about 100,000 people read our articles on this website. If you include our articles and headlines syndicated on other websites and newsreaders, we had about 122,000 people.

This website is also one of the most popular for Clear Digital Media, Inc., the publishing company I operate. It's actually the third most popular, behind Interment.net, and Strange New Products, respectively.

So what big plans do we have for DoggieNews in the future? No big plans, really. We'll continue to bring you product announcements, take a look at strange dog news, new dog laws, cool dog photos, and throw in an opinion once in a while.

Check this out. So far the most popular article we've ever published on DoggieNews is the one about the Dog Poop Sign, which goes way back to July 2004, a month after we launched. This article consistenly gets read more often than any of our articles, month after month, even after all this time.

I figure we're helping Plain Label Press sell a lot of dog poop signs. You'd think they would at least send me a free one!