Looking back at 10 years of Development Impact: Did our blogs age well? Photo credit: Mariajose Silva Vargas 10 years is a decade. 1,500 blog posts are a lot. We thought we’d reflect a little bit on how this all went since we had the idea of starting it in 2011. The thing that we want to start with is the quality of our readership. In the early days, we would, not infrequently, receive comments from people, including guest bloggers, along the lines of “you don’t get a lot of comments, but the ones you get are very high quality” (in the first year we received 115 comments on 179 posts; last year it was 90 comments on 123 posts). This was true from the very beginning: just check out this set of commenters on Berk’s first blog post, “Is there an ‘unmet need’ for birth control?”, which is a ‘Who’s Who’ of experts on development economics and family planning. And, each comment is like a blog post in and of itself.