January 05, 2004
Editors Wanted
2003 was a great year for writing. I fired up my blog in the second week of January and it took off far beyond what I expected. One of my articles was published in the Wall Street Journal’s online Opinion Journal, and Nick Shulz was kind enough to let me write a series of pieces for him at Tech Central Station.
I am tremendously grateful to all the other bloggers who link to my site, to the editors who took a chance and published my work, and most of all to everyone who shows up to read what I have to say.
This year I’d like to ramp it up. I have plenty of time to write. Who says I need to clean the house? (Um, your wife – ed.) And I’d like more of my work to appear in print and in other online publications.
Make no mistake. I still plan to write for Tech Central Station as long as Nick Shulz will have me. He is a terrific editor and I’m not looking to replace my working relationship with him for one with somebody else. What I want to do is expand.
So if you’re an editor who is looking for new writing talent and think my work might be a nice fit, please, by all means, write me a letter and let’s talk. Most of what I write is political commentary from a centrist perspective, and like I said, I have plenty of time to write. After a great 2003, 2004 is no time to sit back and stagnate.
And to my readers (bless you all), I’m not shutting down the blog any time soon. There is nothing like push-button publishing with instant feedback. Besides, I’m having way too much fun to quit now.
(Sincere thanks to Glenn Reynolds, Roger L. Simon, and Jeff Jarvis for their advice and support.)
Cleaning the house is a fools's game. Why? Thermodynamics. You're wasting energy every time you clean it, and the entropy of the system is just going to increase anyway. Just give up. Anything you can't find, you can steal from your neighbors.
That's my story, and I'm sticking with it.
Posted by: Independant George at January 6, 2004 06:40 AMIn the interest of democracy and expanding the talent pool, wouldn't it be sweet if Al Gore or somebody could invent a socialized blog-welfare system, where the State would reward bloggers say 50 cents per sitemeter visit on annual basis? Maybe Howard Dean could add that to his economic justice platform.
Posted by: d-rod at January 6, 2004 10:14 AM
