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.