It's the Blaug's birthday today.
We are among the veterans, those who started and kept
going in a cyber world that was still a novelty nine
or ten years ago. People used to ask: what's a blog?
Now everybody knows and nearly everybody blogs, even
politicians. Along with FaceBook,
Twitter and umpteen other forms
of internet-based socialising, blogging has become
as ubiquitous as a mobile phone.
I'm certainly not one of the most
regular or consistent bloggers but I'm hanging in there and I
hope that what I do post has some interest and value
to others. On the other hand, even if no one was coming
to see what's up on Blaugustine, it would still be valuable
for me to keep blogging. It gives me a window to look
out of and look into, a way to escape from ivory-towerism.
And it's provided me with some wonderfully creative new
friends and connected me to the world in ways that would
never have happened in the pre-blog era.
So happy birthday
to Blaugustine and thank you very much to all who have
visited her and all who have stayed
and all who drop in and all who comment. We are truly, deeply appreciative of
your support.
Here, to celebrate, is a photo
of a puppet I made some time ago to practice stop-motion
animation and two ferocious creatures found at the Natural
History Museum which she seems to be taming.
2 comments:
Happy Birthday, Blaugustine - a visit is always rewarding.
Congratulations on sticking with it and I agree-- they are important even when we have few readers. They can be found with searches and things we wrote long ago meet someone else's needs. I don't know how long the blog world will continue but I hope it's a long time as it at least is truly free speech.
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