My apologies for the long hiatus - I plead the usual hectic schedule of the holiday season, with the need to write Christmas cards instead of Postcards. But now I have a few days off around the holiday, so I'm using this opportunity to get back on track - and what that means for you, Gentle Readers, is a flurry of postings for your enjoyment, to make up for my absence.
Today I'm straying a little off-topic, but only to mark an important anniversary. Ten years ago the first web log was born - or at least, referred to for the first time as a "web log" (it wouldn't be until two years later that it was contracted into the word "blog" that we all know and love today). We now live in a world infested with blogs of every stripe, so much so that it's difficult to remember what life was like before there were blogs to be found on every street corner - or am I thinking of Starbucks?
Anyway, to celebrate this pivotal point in the history of the Internet, National Public Radio is running a week-long series on the Blogosphere - its history, its inhabitants, and its culture. I found the first report in the series incredibly funny - a "radio blog" about the history of the blog that attempts to render the visual attribiutes of blogs - the scrolling, the links, etc - into an audible form. If the rest of the week's offerings are as good as today's, this is an anniversary I'll be sorry to see pass.
