1000 Awesome Things
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Type of site
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Blog (user-generated) |
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| Available in | English |
| Created by | Neil Pasricha |
| Slogan(s) | "1000 Awesome Things is just a time-ticking countdown of 1000 awesome things." |
| Website | http://1000awesomethings.com |
| Alexa rank |
 288,158 (as of January 2016) |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | June 20, 2008 |
| Current status | Active |
1000 Awesome Things is a regularly updated, Webby Award winning blog written by Neil Pasricha, who posts one awesome thing in life each weekday. The site was launched on June 20, 2008 with #1000 Broccoflower and is counting down until it hits #1. The topics covered on the blog are varied, and range from #981, Wearing underwear just out of the dryer, to #858, The other side of the pillow, and #773, watching your odometer click over a major milestone. An awesome thing is posted every weekday and #1 was posted on April 19, 2012. The website has a live stats counter on it and has approximately 48 million hits.
The author says that at the time of starting the site "if you flipped open the newspaper it was filled with the same stuff every day. The polar ice caps were melting, there were pirates storming the seas, the economy was on the verge of collapse, and there were wars going on all over the world." As a result, he created a website discussing "popping bubble wrap, or snow days, or the smell of a bakery." In later interviews, and through a revealing series on his blog, the author shared that his personal divorce and a friend's suicide prompted him to continue looking for positive things in life.
The author gave a TED Talk at TEDxToronto in 2010 which he further describes the origins of 1000 Awesome Things and The Book of Awesome and discusses key messages from the book.
Based on the number of comments on the posts, the top five most popular pages are:
The Book of Awesome (2010)
In 2009, Neil Pasricha was approached by literary agents after winning the Webby Award and signed with Erin Malone from WME who also represents blog-to-books Stuff White People Like and Texts From Last Night. It was published as a 400-page hardcover the United States and Canada in April, 2010 from AEB/Putnam, a division of Penguin Publishing. The book became a bestseller in its first week and a New York Times bestseller. The book has been translated and is available in Dutch, Korean, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, and French.
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