Read Cory D’s speech on accepting Boing Boing’s Bloggie award for Best American Blog. I can’t believe that a little over a year ago, I’d never heard of a blog. But long before that, I wished for a quick, easy way to publish occasional thoughts to my Web site.

Back in December 2002, I built a page for random observations on my web site, which pretty much sucked. If not for blogging, I would have had to rebuild the page every time I accessed it, or put new posts on the bottom. Then in April ’03, the hours before I found out that there are sites like blogspot and blog-city, I experimented with uploading html and doc files.

I’d been seeing blogs around before last April, but I thought you had to incorporate them into your own site and host them from there, which I never did figure out how to do. So I’m personally grateful, not only to services like blogger, but also to people like the guys at Boing Boing and countless other blogs. Just because progress is as progress does.