Thursday, July 30, 2009

Beginnings

One of the many pleasures of summer is the sense that one can “check things off the list” that manage to elude us during the rest of the year. Starting a blog is the perfect example of that satisfaction.

I understand experts on the web estimate that, when taken as a whole, the average blog has about six readers. By aiming high, I may get somewhere close to double that average. We shall see.

I am also aware that blogs often have a certain voice – a casual, connected immediacy that is a new kind of writing for me. The entire endeavor strikes me as a writing and thinking adventure. My hope is that this communication speaks to the DS community in some fashion and that – worst case - you have a wasted a modest amount of time.