Jerome Armstrong created MyDD (for My Due Diligence) in 2001 to host is online postings (originally geared to stock predictions). He began using the Greymatter and MovableType platforms when he transitioned the focus to politics. MyDD.com does not link to the archives from this era; many, though not all, have been recovered from the Internet Archive.

MyDD Archives: Greymatter

The first version of the weblog used the Greymatter platform.

Month	total	missing	comments
April 2002	48	0	76
May 2002	59	1	45
June 2002	64	1	162
July 2002	60	1	184
August 2002	67	4	567
September 2002	81	5	1158
Total	379	12	2192

MyDD Archives: MovableType

Using MovableType, Armstrong began categorizing along the following topics. Armstrong put MyDD on hiatus in August 2003 when he began work for the Howard Dean campaign.

Month	bush	war	congress	world	economy	dems	primary	dean	misc	site	total	missing	comments
August 2002	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
September 2002	0	0	20	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	24	4	211
October 2002	3	1	89	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	97	27	1946
November 2002	0	0	29	2	0	1	2	0	0	0	34	11	459
December 2002	2	1	8	6	0	2	4	2	6	2	33	20	164
January 2003	11	5	3	12	2	2	15	11	3	6	70	28	925
February 2003	13	3	0	12	3	3	16	9	0	3	62	15	1562
March 2003	3	3	0	9	0	0	14	8	0	5	42	22	702
April 2003	1	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	1	2	8	2	0
May 2003	2	0	0	2	0	1	9	1	0	1	16	7	0
June 2003	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	6	3	0
July 2003	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	11	4	0
August 2003	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Total	36	13	150	47	7	9	62	48	12	21	405	144	5969

Armstrong re-launched MyDD with Chris Bowers in April 2004 using the Scoop platform.