Todd VanDerWerff over a VOX has a great post on the Internet in the mid 2000s. At that time I had a fairly successful blog of my own, that was frequently linked by the New York Times, the Washington Post and PBS. But even with the help of my conservative co blogger, Jazz Shaw, it became too much to produce the content necessary to keep it going. I moved on to to Newshoggers, a group blog but even there we eventually lost interest and the blog died. My friend Joe gave me the opportunity to rant here at TMV which I continue to do today. The old internet was the wild west perhaps because of George W Bush. The description of my old blog, Middle Earth Journal, was on line pamphleteers in the spirit of early Americans.