Wednesday, December 29, 2004
(7:26 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Year-End Thanks
I'd like to take an opportunity to thank everyone who makes The Weblog such a fun passtime for me.First of all, I'd like to thank Anthony, Robb, Mike Schaefer, Monica, Tara, Richard, and Adam Robinson for their terms as full-time staff bloggers, and I'd like to thank them all for taking it in stride as I made the transition away from that format (firing a couple of them in the process, then realizing that any policy that would make me "fire" two good friends is probably something that could be revised). I'd like to thank all those who have participated in our guest blogger program, including Bill Mantis, Travis Young, and especially The Young Hegelian (who is certainly welcome to post again whenever he wishes).
I'd like to thank our wonderful commenting community, including, but not limited to, Patrick, Angela, Infinite Thought, Young Hegelian, Olivia, Rebekah, William S, Brey, Ralph Luker, and of course, Cap'n Pete. I'd like to thank our enterprising young trolls: Paul Welneck (aka Hindustani), low-rent empiricist positivist (with a special thanks for all the homophobic/anti-Semitic [sic] e-mail I received from him after blocking him), and troll du jour.
I'd like to thank à Gauche for being such a good sister site. I'd like to thank everyone on my blogroll for being such good bloggers. I'd like to thank the many sites who have directed traffic our way, especially Cliopatria (which racked up far and away the most referrals to The Weblog this year), Infinite Thought, Long Pauses, wood s lot, John and Belle, Crooked Timber, and all those who help to make us here at The Weblog into the Flappy Birds God intended us to be.
I'd like to thank all those who made St. Paul Week such a success -- Ryan Hansen, Dave Belcher, Anthony Smith, Brad Johnson, and Adam Kotsko -- and all those sites that participated in the failed experiment of the University Without Condition this spring and summer (à Gauche, Cap'n Pete, The Pickle, The H is O, News You Can Use, Confessions of a Philosophy Groupie, BreyLog, Scott McLemee, Ralph Luker, For the Time Being, and The Sliver). I believe St. Paul Week to have been very much in the spirit of the UWC concept and hope to host similar events in the future, but not too soon in the future. Thank you to all those who helped to create a virtual support group in those dark days after the election and to all those who helped to make our Heifer Fundraiser such a great success.
Thanks, everyone, for reading and writing.
