A Year in the Blogosphere

In January of 2005, inspired by Hugh Hewitt, I started my own blog. Being totally new to the concept of blogging, I was unclear as to where I was going with my new web log and the caliber of bloggers I was reading, I felt, far exceeded my own abilities to produce a comparable web page. Months went by before I decided to rethink and reinvent my blog.

So, today, June 1st 2006, it is my official one year anniversary of actually maintaining my web log and the 18th month since its creation. The year has been pretty interesting. I've gone from writing indictments of the State Legislature to poems about the threats we face from China.

I've found over the past year that trying to create a blog that rivals those like La Shawn Barber's Corner or The Mudville Gazette just wasn't in the cards. Those are two of many great blog sites maintained by very competent and capable people. They serve a need on the Internet and I serve an audience of one (sometimes two)...which is cool with me.

What my blog serves is an outlet for me to express my thoughts and opinions. I like it, it has a great many options as far as editing and formatting and you always have that slight chance that someone may come across it and say...'Wow! This is a pretty cool Blog.' Well, even if they do or don't, I find this new forum of communication interesting and on the cutting edge for news and opinions.

So in recognition of my one year anniversary, I'm going to list what I think are my 12 most interesting blogs covering the last 12 months (in no particular order):

* Enemy of the State
* Senator Schumer shifts legislative powers to Supreme Court
* It was Americans
* Geeeeehaaaaad!
* Europe had Chicken Little, Russia had Peter and the Wolf, The US has the Main Stream Media
* Reliant City: (Part of the Hurricane Katrina: Trail of Tears essay)
* Rosa Parks: A Conscience of black America
* Iraqi Freedom
* What Border Problem?
* Islam: The World’s Ghetto
* All I have is America
* Text: Criminal Indictment of the California Legislature

Ok...maybe they weren't that interesting. I hope that my next annual report will be full of positive news and opinions re: the world in which we live. Until then...stay informed and stay in touch; and remember...words don't make a difference...People do.


Mike D.
a/k/a American Zulu