So much has changed on this blog over the last 16 months, and so many things have happened on the web. Its difficult to imagine how I felt the first time I posted, because at the time, I was sure nobody was listening! Now I know that's no longer the case. :)

This site has become so much more than I ever imagined. Both in terms of the relationships and contacts I have made with my fellow (digital) citizens, and also in the way I feel about what it is that I try my best to do here.

Blogging is fantastically liberating at times. As well as being the most all consuming pain in the arse! It can cripple your outdoor-social skills, and turn you and your body into a cathode-ray collecting zone. Yet strangely, the ability to share information, and to link backwards and forwards in real-time, to the ideas, conversations, thoughts, and feelings of others, creates a compelling sense of connectedness with the world. Even if that world sometimes seems only pixels deep.

Someone told me yesterday, that they hated computers, because they were driving us all away from real physical asscociation and community, and into our own isolated little  boxes. Personally, I don't feel that way, although I can sympathise with his sense of disconnectedness. My interactions with technology, and with the communities of people using it have been mostly positive, and  have considerably broadened both my outlook, and my relationships with others.

My involvement with Podcasting has certainly led to some enjoyable and exciting real-life encounters, both with other people who share my enthusiasm for this medium, and with all the folks I've gone out to talk to and interview.

Where this blog will be 16 months from now I really can't say. But hopefully it will continue to improve and to grow, both as a place for me to express my creative energies in, and as a useful node in the ever growing chain of connectedness that binds the web together. I'm proud of the work I've done here, and I'm looking forward to doing more. The future is bright you know, but only if we choose to be brighter ourselves.. :)