It's been a good year. We laughed. We cried. It was better than Cats.
—Charlie Park

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. Happy birthday Pure Content, happy birthday to you!

Time to break open the good stuff and par-tay. Yes, for three-hundred and sixty-five days, one site has challenged the meaning of online creative community. Pure Content is the brainchild of Charlie Park, Class of '01 at William and Mary, and boy! wonder at Play, Inc. (more about Play in this post), who has brought an daily audience of hundreds to the first corporate blog and turned the heads of some notable bloggers in the business/creativity umbrella. And what a ride! From big business branding to mathematical lego structures. From great reads like The Rise of the Creative Class to the voice of 'you've got mail!'

The evolution from a one-man-band (covering every corner of passion out there) to a multi-authored journal (featuring folks from Play, including the amazing Sean O'Brien), to today's full-fledged, open conversation that incorporates a Street Team (where anyone can login and post). What began as an idea with the simple mission to look at more stuff and think about it harder, found a way to take a life of its own and start to define itself. In his own words, Charlie posts the challenge to his readers: "Passion, as our college professor noted, is engrossing. Each of us has a creativity and a passion that is uniquely our own. How is yours infused in your work?"

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Relive the first post ever on Pure Content.

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