In the past couple of months I introduced a bunch of new things to the blog in an effort to provide you with even more content and entertainment. The first thing I did was create a dedicated Events section late last year and then at the start of this year I introduced the revamped Community. Now I’m introducing the Market.
The Market came about by necessity since the “For Sale” section in the Community became too difficult to manage. So, I shutdown the “For Sale” section there and created this new dedicated classifieds section instead. I had the locally based Orange Jetpack Studios help me get it running and looking the way I want it to and even though there is still room for improvement, I think its ready right now. So check out the Market either by clicking the link in the navigation bar on top or by clicking [Here]
Over the years the blog has become more than just a blog and your expectations of it has also changed. In a couple of days it will be the 9 year anniversary of the blog which is a pretty long time. Awhile back a reader wrote something which I hadn’t thought of before which is that some people started reading the blog while they were still in school, and then continued reading the blog all the way through their university years and now from their jobs. I found that amazing since I never expected to blog for this long. I truly appreciate everyone who reads the blog and from my side I’ll continue to keep finding content that interests you. This is my dream job.
21 replies on “The 248AM Market + 9 Year Anniversary”
Congrats Mark keep up the great work. 9 years is a pretty long time.
9 years! thats amazing.. keep going!
Congrats Mark … awesome work ..all the best 🙂
Congrats on the 9 years! The market place looks great! I have a feeling it will be the next craigslist of Kuwait!!
Actually I started reading this blog when i was schooling and right now I am working and doing my under graduate. Moved out of Kuwait last year but still follow the blog…. Yeah pretty cool…. Congratz
Thank you Mark
just realized that I started reading your blog when I was in 7th grade, I’m now in my senior year of uni 😛 time flies … thank you mark.
I started reading your blog when I came to Kuwait almost 7 years ago – and believe it or not – even when I go back home I am always reading it – it has always kept me up to date on what’s going on in Kuwait and was generally a great intro for me as a new expat! thanks!
Keep up the good work.. I started reading the blog back in 2006, when +18 content was allowed in the blog
The good old days :p
Hey if you sell whatever is posted on the classifieds or market- make sure it’s deleted.
Well done! Quite the milestone.
Congrats!!!
Congrats!!!
i was a kid when i came to your blog and then joined your forum. learned all about fisting and read some cool posts from falconls, holla, sinnerorsaint, ar5enal and all those people. not to forget cajie who brought me so much inspiration for photography that i read so many books on it.
in a year i will graduate and will be leaving kuwait, so i hope by that we have a blogger meetup so that we can meetup and i could whole heartedly thank you for everything you showed me about kuwait that i never knew.
thanks mark. when i think about kuwait, 248am is also a picture so that should feel good for you man. 🙂
okay by fisting i meant one of your first posts on the blog about this shop named FIST or something like that.
Congratulations, well deserved. You have done a remarkable job in a challenging market — you are a rare success story — The New York Times should be calling soon for an interview. I hope they ask me to write it!
Congrats Mark!!!
9 years is a long time..
we should have a celebration or you should actually organize an event to celebrate the landmark 🙂
9 free giveaways is not a bad idea.
Been a good 3-4 years since your Eid Giveaway 😀
Alf Mabrook, job well done and please keep carrying on.
Congratulations Mark , Wishing you the very best !
God Bless !
Bravo, Mark. Nine years is quite an achievement. Well done; you’ve kept blogging through thick and thin, and through those dry times!