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04/13/2003 Archived Entry: "Terry Oglesby Celebrates his first anniversary"

TERRY OGLESBY CELEBRATES HIS FIRST YEAR OF BLOGGING

Possum is Good Eatin' and it's Good for You!, so says Terry's home page. Too bad it isn't raccoon he's after as we've now bagged eight of them.

My new friend, architect (If it don't line up, it ain't architecture!) and fellow blogger, Terry Oglesby celebrated his first year of blogging earlier this month. I've intended to offer my congratulations in a more timely fashion, but...alas...I'm a little late. Terry won't mind.

I enjoy his POSSUMBLOG remarks as they make me smile. He posts a lot of goings on with his family, his daughter's soccer games, his missed doctor's appointments, the war, life's little indignities, friends and occasionally he has a comment about my blog, which is pretty cool since my blogs are pretty bland by comparison.

Anyway, I thought you might like to read what he had to say about his first year of blogging:

"HEY!!

"All of you go wish this guy a happy one year blogiversary!!

"[...] Not to overstate the case, but the blogosphere represents something completely new, the emergence of a self-appointed, independent punditocracy, capable of instanteously disseminating news, information, and commentary to an interested and educatated audience. That is a major achievement, one carried out not according to plan, program, or fiat, but organically, from the bottom up. The true blogosphere is made up of the independent voices of individuals, heard through the medium of the internet, setting their own agendas, reacting in individual ways to news and information from around the world.

"It is this individuality of the idiosyncratic voice that makes the blogosphere such a grand and glorious place. As a whole, it's an enormous crazy orchestra composed of a thousand bangers, clangers, kazoos, bazookis, and gongs, all going full blast, playing a thousand different tunes at once. And yet, strangely, if you give yourself over to the noise, you can hear in the madness the making of a beautiful, wild music. That is how the blogosphere should be understood, as the triumph of free speech over all else, of noise and riot banging out the cacophonous symphony of freedom.[...]

Posted by Terry Oglesby

For those of you who are still trying to comprehend my interest in blogs, Terry says it best. Free speech over all else....the cacophonous symphony of freedom.