I recently had my copy of Douglas Coupland’s microserfs returned to me after a long stint on someone else’s bookshelf. Placed specially by my toilet I have been rereading the book a few pages per day. Today it dawned on me... This book, published in 1995, is actually written, formatted, read, and presented as a fictional personal blog. This I found quite interesting as blogs didn’t really catch on until a significant amount of time later.

Fun related side note:
In microserfs, as a quick way to get to know other characters, the protagonist creates “dream Jeopardy” categories for them. After a stint of most of us at silverorange reading the book we decided to make up dream Jeopardy categories for the people in our company. Mine was created (not by me) as follows:

1. Serial Entrepreneur Bios
2. 'Doc' from Back to the Future quotes
3. Dell Support voice mail
4. Meal Maker Express advertising
5. Jim Varney movies

I’m sure if you harass other blogging silverorange figures they’ll buckle and post their own dream categories.