[Announcement] 200 posts and The Road Ahead

On Friday afternoon's post, I noticed something. Not only was I creeping close to another milestone of writing on this blog, it happened to be exactly six months to the day since my first significant milestone. 100 posts in six months. But, except for a random cop-out here and there, a few filler posts every now and then, I've also noticed something pretty interesting in the last hundred posts.

I picked up a focus. And it has little to do with dying alone (well, directly, but we'll leave that up to the jury to decide). This blog started back about 18 months ago as a pet project, practice-what-you-preach affair to give me an outlet to keep creative. It worked, and I've had some pretty cool successes because of it:


For all of that fun and foot-longs, though, I've decided to pack things up around these parts. This blog will exist in perpetuity, along with the content, but I have a new home where I will take a specific focus on what's happening in the media world called State of the Fourth Estate.


The title is a play on words from the famous quote attributed to Edmund Burke by Thomas Carlyle in an 1840 lecture on the Men of Letters and Heroes:

"Burke said that there were three Estates in Parliament, but in the Reporters Gallery yonder, there sat a fourth Estate more important far than they all."

Why this new header? Because, regardless of what I think about the costs and levels of access to media, I think it is an unbelievably important part of democracy and government. The future of the marketplace of ideas should never be questioned as a necessity. However, it is fun to watch the constant change of the role of media and journalists, and it has been an interest of mine dating back to my days as an undergraduate research assistant.

Thanks to everyone who has encouraged the origin of this blog, written about any of my opinions, and kept me going to produce content. I'll be updating the feeds, but, please subscribe to the new posts if you'd like to keep in the loop on what I'm ranting about next.

DL