Don’t Call it a Comeback! (well, okay, it’s a comeback)

The year was 2003. Norah Jones was heating up the charts (well, tepidly warming them up, anyway), Johnny Cash shuffled off this mortal coil after raising everyone’s goose bumps one last time, the Simpsons hit episode 300, and Skynet became one step closer to the annihilation of the human race when California elected a T-800 as governor.

It was also the last time the world saw “Internet Siteseeing.” Published primarily in LEO Magazine, the space for local columns dried up after the company was sold (a hazard in the ever-changing world of print journalism), and by that point, I had been writing it almost six years, and pretty much had come to the end of the Internet.

Funny thing happened in the intervening time. Besides moving to Florida, moving back from Florida two months later, getting married, buying a house, adopting a cat and a dog (who, by the way, fight like cats and dogs), changing jobs and generally trying not to grow up, I realized something: I missed writing, and I missed writing this column in particular. I’m in creative fields for a living, but the creativity was always for other people’s projects. The column was for me, and those who cared to read it.

So, it’s only fitting that a column about the Internet should be published on the Internet. Will it be back in print one day? The old print journalist in me hopes so (and also points out that this isn’t really journalism, but he was always a bit curmudgeonly), but it really doesn’t matter. No point in waiting around and hoping something changes. Time to make something change. I’m using WordPress for now. We’ll see how that works out.

This explanation might have been a little self-indulgent, but thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for coming back. My goal is to build a little community here on the Web. C’mon! It should be a fun ride.

Let’s go!
Dave