Happy Blogoversary!
I will leave the retrospectives of the past glorious year of unremittingly spectacular blog posts and startlingly witty and poignant commenting to others here. People who, sob, actually have a computer right now, (tiny violins play in the background) people who can search for old highlights and stuff without a scary librarian looking over there shoulder making sure I am not looking at the pr0n checking on me.
I want to talk about the future, not the past. The future of Docudharma as a blog entity is not all that interesting. The dedicated team of bloggers who started this place will still be here in another year, with a few natural changes here and there. We will still be the place to publish not just thoughtful essays on current events as well as deep musings on the gestalt, zeitgeist and overview of politics culture and all that stuff, as well as poetry, general silliness and just about anything else you can think of that is creative and original and maybe just a bit off beat. Hopefully we will also be attracting new blood (and other bodily fluids?) to keep the blog vibrant and just a tad surprising. After all, a full year of officially being open is a loooooong time in the blogosphere. We are an practically an institution now! Ivy and cobwebs everywhere, teetering ancient bloggers roaming the venerated halls, etc. As long as there are blogs to be written and The Man doesn’t shutdown the intertubes, we will be here, plying our trade.
Sure in the past year there HAS been “A river of words, thought, philosophy and action that nourishes and transforms the political cultural and social landscape through which it passes.” Yeah, we have created something new, a new kind of blog (within the narrow confines of a community, political blog) a new kind of blog culture, (mostly) and a new kind of salad dressing! (Except for the salad dressing part, which I made up.) I thank you all, everyone who has participated. Each and every comment is important, every essay is vital, every member is highly prized, every lurker is greatly valued.
It has always been my view that blogs ARE their users, their community, their readers. Without all of you, without all of us, this is just screaming into thew wilderness. We change each other, we enrich each others minds and souls, we do that rarest of things…..communicate. Their is nothing better than that that humans can do. Their is nothing more important, and their is nothing more fun. And for this basic but difficult to accomplish in a meaningful way human task, the goal literally is…the more the merrier. The more folks we can communicate to and with, the better. Imagine how different this world would be with true communication. Even WITH the inevitable blow-ups and misunderstandings. Communication is the key. You can have all the solutions and great ideas in the world, but if you can’t effectively communicate them, they ain’t worth diddly-squat. If we here can advance the human ability communicate, even a quantum smidge, we have done great work. And I sincerely think that we do and that we have and that we will continue to do so.
So…………….Thank you!
But today, as I stare from the mountain top out across the vast expanse of the future blogosphere, I ponder deeply and wonder frenetically….what will the future of blogging be? Especially if Obama is elected?
The blogosphere as we know it has never known a pResident other than goofy 
and his side kick Death Deadeye Dick. In a very real way it was founded to oppose. To rebel. To be revolting.
Now what?
What will the role of the blogosphere be if we are on the WINNING side? What do we do then? What IS the future of blogging?
HA! and you thought there wasn’t going to be a test!
Thanks again folks, I love you all and Keep On Tucking!
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It looks like I am being FORCED to take a bit of a blog-cation.
It makes sense, in a way, after a year of writing something almost everyday, or if not actively writing, then certainly actively fretting about not writing, with my puter down but help on the horizon (monday) I will be taking the next couple of days off….all the way off, iow, not pretending to take the day off while checking teh blog every ten minutes, or traveling, but OFF off!
Or at least trying to!
I might peek.
For the next couple o days I will be curled up in bed, looking out the window at the trees changing color, and reading Terry Pratchett books! I can already feel my creativity and enthusiasm coming back.
IF you can pitch in with a donation to help pay for a new hard drive that would be great…and it means that I can eat food too (!) Maybe even all at the same time!
Thanks again Dharmaniacs….and see you in a couple of days!
a different kind of work begins, if we’re smart.
we’ll start local revolutions. we will never leave our fates totally in the hands of a few hundred senators, congressmen/women, and a president. ever again.
and, god or whatever willing, we won’t leave it all in the hands of financial managers and stock brokers. ever again.
it’s easy to be here right now. the transitional period. all balls are up in the air. but once they land, kapow. are we (all of us) ready for how raped and beaten our country and its citizens have been?
hopefully places like Docudharma can be rudders in the swift currents.
…on this wonderful place you nudged into being. You turned the crankstem on the new baby dd, put it down somewhere in the middle of the information highway to watch it go. And, did it ever go, to the great delight of us d-maniacs.
Fun, laughs, insight and invaluable information, easy to access. Thanks. Thanks.
May your puter be back and galloping soon.
Well I am going out for a few little drinkie things later with fellow work slaves today so I will have one for you dear leader and lucky you today happens to be pay day so cha ching for a new hard drive and a biscuit or two.
And for encouraging it to continue to invent itself and be a place of humor and thought and reason, and not just for cheerleading.
I was going to get you a hard drive for the occasion, but I didn’t know your size.
for being the one to bring us all together — for the bad times, the good times, the sad times, the happy times and the downright nutty times! It’s been such an interesting and even exciting trip — and will continue to thrive as such, I’m sure! How could it help not to — with all the great people here!!!
Hibernation, now and then, is good, even if enforced — so enjoy!
just…
Thank YOU!
My life doesn’t allow me to be more than a casual commenter, even more casual essayist, but I do lurk and laugh, and I thank you, Buhdy, and everyone else who is under the hood and behind the wheel, riding shotgun, and even the kids misbehaving in the back seat, I 3> docudharma. I always know that I can come here to find sanity and insanity and kindness and beauty all in one place. Wishing you a wonderful year to come and as many more as you feel like.
have I missed anything?
I didn’t even know that when I just listed you in an article on Top Ten Liberal and Progressive Blogs that I wrote for Associated Content. I guess that just really proves what an institution you practically are! (With the ivy and the cobwebs and all that.)
Congratulations!
Buhdydharma,
You made this into an amazing blog. You’re lucky there’s a lot of intense discussions here. That is what makes a great blog.
I also want to thank “Sir” Kestrel 9000 for recommending I check this Docudharma out. I registered the minute I got here… and ironically I recognized most of the pro-impeachers from Daily Kos came here too! That was the first real indication I realized, I was home.
Looking foward to more fun, more growth, and a greater impact on the lib blogosphere and national politics.
YELL LOUDER!
but then again that is just a pointofview
Looks like you got an awesome new banner for you birthday gift.
😉