20 Years of Blogging
Twenty years ago this month, I posted on a blog for the first time. According to my old writing notebooks, I published the introduction to “The Casual Critic” on November 27, 2004 – the Saturday after Thanksgiving. A holiday weekend probably wasn’t the best time to launch a new concept that required attracting readers to be successful, but I was entering a new world I knew nothing about. My opening paragraph read: In a world where “blogging” has made millions instant columnists, the writer in me simply couldn’t resist joining the fray. My goal isn’t to preach, push an agenda, nor to wax intelligent. Instead, I hope to have a little fun, hopefully entertain a reader or two, and to fulfill any good scribe’s desire to live up to the mantra that writer’s write. Me, circa 2009. My first social media pic. Not bad for a beginning, though I may have been trying too hard to impress readers. A note to myself above the first post says that I was looking to use Google AdSense and affiliate program
