Mike Arrington's TechCrunch blog started one year ago today (okay, yesterday), so congrats are in order. Think about the fact Mike had just moved to the Valley a little more than a year ago, and now his blog (according to Mike) has around 65,000 RSS and email subscribers via Feedburner, and serves serves 2-3 million page views per month. Back in month 5, Mike said: "TechCrunch is a hobby that has grown to an obsession.." --and now one could say grown to a business, and maybe even an empire.
Congrats, big guy.