Bloggledygook: The Year Of Living Bloggerly.

Bloggledygook: The Year Of Living Bloggerly.

One of my favorite bloggers, Daniel at Bloggledygook, celebrates his one year blogiversary.

All through 2001 I was finding and reading new sites, following links, printing out articles to read on the bus ride home from work. Mostly I kept to politics and market sites with the occasional stop at the new real-time scoring for the Grand Slam tennis tournaments.

Eventually I made my way to blog Shangri-la, commonly referred to as Instapundit. I had no idea what I was looking at (he was still on blogspot, I think) but soon Glenn lead me to Stephen Green (my blogfather) and Andrew Sullivan and James Lileks.

Then came September 11 and blogs became for me both a conduit of thought and information and a sort of tacit community that I locked on to. I found Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon, two liberals who were expressing exactly what I was feeling about what had happened to us. Still, I was a reader, not a writer. I wouldn’t even comment because I was following most of the blogs from my work computer and I was paranoid.

It wasn’t until I left Morgan Stanley that I thought that maybe I should start a blog. But I didn’t. I continued to read more and more blogs (this is starting to sound a little like I should be talking some Bill W. talk) and with the 2004 election, I was now commenting, mostly on Vodkapundit and Donkey Rising.

Election night 2004 turned me into a blogger. I read Stephen Green and the Corner all day and into the night, commenting, even getting an email to Jonah Goldberg up at The Corner.

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