The Respublica blog, written by Diane Meyer, just celebrated its 4 year blogversary this week. Diane reflected on her blog's origin.
"It was the summer before the 2004 presidential election and I had gotten interested in many of the political bloggers, especially those who were invited to attend the two presidential conventions. The 2004 convention year was the first time bloggers were given journalistic access to the convention ( by invitation) and I thought the insight they brought was so much more interesting than the normal television news reports."
"So I decided to create a blog with a more local point of view, Collinsville, Metro East, St. Louis, Illinois, Missouri, etc. even though I couldn't, and still can't, resist some national posts. The first day I set up an account with Blogger, but was only a couple of hours into it when I realized I did not care for that format. I looked at several blog companies and settled on Typepad. That first day I had no idea about the future of the blog, it took several hours to come up with a name, design, sidebar items and all the rest."
"It took me only a couple of days before I knew I loved blogging. I learned as I went along on how to use 'feeds' and Google to attract readers. Little by little I branched out my categories, adding subjects I was interested in like food, the seminary, pets, sports, etc. Each of those categories seems to bring a different set of visitors to the site."
Diane, seamlessly connects and shows her passion for politics, the Lutheran church, food, and more in her blog. While keeping her tone friendly and lighthearted, Diane shares important and interesting news around the country, with a special focus on the Metro-East area.
"What I enjoy the most is how much I have learned by having a blog. I've only missed posting one or two days during the four years and those two days were due to the death of my father. Posting means doing a lot of reading in newspapers, on other blogs, going to meetings, attending events, and with each of those things I've filled up on an almost ridiculous amount of facts, opinion, and understanding. And just as good, I've been able to meet and talk to so many people who read the blog, people I probably would never have come across otherwise."
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