It’s been two years since I started blogging at Below The Beltway.
After starting out on Blogger, I moved to a real server, and real blog software in April 2006, and, notwithstanding a very dry spell during September and October of last year, it’s been nothing but writing, writing, writing since then.
And people actually seem to be noticing. Through today, roughly 170,000 people have visited both the Blogger and Wordpress versions of the site and I’ve received links from several big-time bloggers, including my first Instalanche last month.
But I don’t do this to watch the Sitemeter numbers rise, I do it because I enjoy writing and this seems to be a good way to keep my skills sharp. The fact that people notice is just icing on the cake.
You may have noticed some shift in topics here over the past six months or so. Most of my political opinion writing is now over at The Liberty Papers, although I do sometimes cross-post things here and there. As a result, I’ve written more about local politics here, as well as culture, movies, music, and whatever else happens to interest or annoy me on a given day. There are some personal things that I don’t write about, and that’s mostly because, well, there are some things I don’t want to share, at least not at this point.
Anyway, thanks for visiting and posting comments. And keep coming back.
July 4th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Happy Blogiversary Doug! May many more follow…
July 4th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Happy Birthday to America and to Below the Beltway!
July 4th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
So I’m not that far behind? I’m closing in on two years of blogging if you count my first one posting lesson plan outlines. Congratulations!