This has nothing to do with this blog post — I just liked the magic of it.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“A blog is in many ways a continuing conversation.” ~ Andrew Sullivan
Right on Andrew! Apparently Mr. Sullivan is “the first mainstream journalist to experiment with blogging.” Called The Daily Dish, his blog started in 2000, “soon gained a large following, enabling him to interact with his readers and garner almost instantaneous responses to his work.” (Found this bit of blog history in The Writer’s Devotional by Amy Peters.
All I can say is Thanks Andrew ~ we will all happily continue your tradition, mainstream journalists or not.
Bliss is blogging, whether it be as a mainstream journalist, a little known journalist (like me), the hobby blogger, or the social blogger–what do you think?
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