Congratulations to Blogger

Okay, this may seem a little self-serving, but I want to extend me congratulations to the folks at Google and Blogger for their recent upgrade. They have totally rebuilt both the backend interface and available frontend templates to create a more visually exciting and standards-compliant environment. Even better, the new templates are designed by some of the current top standards-compliant designers in the HTML business, including Doug Bowman and Jeffrey Zeldman. Quite a nice job by all involved!

It also comes on the heals of current articles declaring that "Blogging has Arrived," whatever that means. I mean, I started this particular blog for one reason: to have a place to self-indulgently meditate on the role of digital media in our society in general and in the life of a visual artist in particular. Sometimes, that's even what I talk about. But to say that this blog has "arrived" is to be too optimistic; I'm pretty sure that my blog has an audience of one, myself. Can't even get my wife to read it, but one might joke that after nine years of marriage I'm lucky she can still hear me now and then. However, if you're one of the lucky few who has followed the blog, let me know with the new comments feature (another handy Blogger addition). Even better, let me know if you'd like to participate - my fondest hope has been to turn this into a dialog rather than a monologue. A guy can dream, can't he?