Hello, All

For some people, like Glenn Reynolds, Steven Den Beste (sadly no longer blogging) or Wretchard, their individual voice or style is so powerful or unique as to be able to carry a blog alone through just about any vicissitudes. (For a far more numerous group, their blogs are so personal and intimate as to make group blogging unsuitable.) In the middle, I think that there’s a lot of room for consolidation, and that a lot of bloggers will find themselves coming together in groups.

In part this is because there is a flaw with individual blogs: one person simply can’t post all the time. There are times when home life, work, mood or access simply don’t allow it, and there are times when a person just has to be out of touch with the news, which makes it difficult to blog topically. I don’t like to just leave people hanging waiting for content: it makes some people grumpy, and puts a pressure on me to write when I really can’t spare the time.

I have reached the point where I feel happier blogging with others than alone. If you’re coming here from my old blog, Caerdroia, welcome. If you’re seeing me here for the first time, hello.

As Dave noted in his introduction, our views are similar but not identical. I hope that this will be a reinforcing characteristic, and I will strive to keep up the standards that Dave has maintained here all along. (There’s a reason he’s been on my daily reads for a long time.)

And thank you, Dave, for having me over.