Congratulations to Eric Goldman on Twenty Years of Blogging

This month, Eric Goldman is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of his Technology and Marketing Law Blog. It is an amazing achievement. Our Blog has also been around for twenty years, but we have had numerous contributors over those years, and there was a regrettable lapse when the Blog went silent. Imagine that!

I check in from time to time on Eric’s blog. It often has content that is relevant to our readers as well. Eric estimates that he spends two hours per blog post, which seems about right to me on average. As Eric explains, bloggers do what they do because they enjoy it. They hope that it a provides a reading public with information delivered at the right level and in a convenient space, but we wouldn’t keep at it if we weren’t passionate about it, even when it seems like the world has pushed past blogs. Here is Eric’s summation:

As I’ve said before, I feel like I was born to blog. Despite the heavy time commitment, I rarely feel like blogging is a chore. . . . If I was forced to stop blogging, I would miss it desperately. I never could have imagined that I would blog for 20 years. But having reached that milestone, I fully expect to keep going for 20 more years or longer.

Whenever I have a look at Eric blog, I feel a bit guilty that I don’t visit it more often. One of the ironies of blogging is that a committed blogger lacks time to read other people’s blogs, at least if they also have a day job. I won’t have my day job in twenty years, nor do I think I will be blogging. I will miss both, but I can take some consolation in knowing that Eric’s blog will still be going strong.