A year in the life of a what? A blog?
Terry Teachout’s blog, About Last Night, was a year old yesterday and I am reminded that even though it is on my blogroll I do not read it often enough.
Terry reminisces a bit and reaches into the ether to find some representative material from the past year. This item reminds me both of Tyler Cowan’s discussion of the fame and merit of critics in What Price Fame? and the transitory nature of our being:

Few biographers and fewer critics long outlive their own time, and I doubt I�ll be one of them. More likely I will go down in history as the first known owner of Hart-Davis 631, and in 2104 some art historian specializing in the Edwardian era will click on that entry in a computerized catalogue raisonn�, scratch his head, and say, �Who was that fellow with the odd name? Did it ever occur to him that the only thing he�d be remembered for was having owned a Max Beerbohm caricature and edited an H.L. Mencken anthology?� Indeed it did�and let it be said, if not necessarily remembered, that the prospect made me smile.

Wow, Technorati is now tracking over 3,000,000 weblogs:

The growth of the service has been pretty remarkable – here’s some stats: We’re currently seeing anywhere from 8,000-17,000 new weblogs created every single day.
On an average weekday, we’re seeing over 15,000 new weblogs created per day. That means that a new weblog is created somewhere in the world every 5.8 seconds.
Of course, not all weblogs that are created are actively updated. Even though abandonment rates are high – our analyses show that about 45% of the weblogs we track have not had a post in over 3 months we are still tracking a significant population of people who are posting each day. The number of conversations are increasing. We’re seeing over 275,000 individual posts every day.

To Talkleft which is two years old today.
May there be many more.

Hesiod, the proprietor of Counterspin Central, has retired.
Fare thee well!
Via Walter.