I'm just back from lunch with friends from my old job and stomping ground, LMC-TV in Mamaroneck, New York. It was great catching up. One is teaching English as a Second Language courses in the Bronx, and after explaining how literacy programs have been systematically defunded, will begin doing literacy work there next month. The other is volunteering through a retired professional organization to help people with problematic backgrounds return to the workforce.
We talked about my blog - why I blog and how I built my blog - and they asked why I don't blog on a single topic. They were on to something. From Bruce Bartlett:
In my first commentary, I noted that journalists like Andrew Sullivan, Mickey Kaus and Matt Drudge, as well as publications such as National Review, The American Prospect and Reason magazine had established blogs. Last year, I noted the growing number of academics who were commenting regularly in this form, including Brad Delong (Cal-Berkeley), Eugene Volokh and Steve Bainbridge (both of UCLA), Glenn Reynolds (U/Tennessee), Steve Antler (Roosevelt U.), and Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University. What I have discovered in the past year is that there is increasing specialization among bloggers, with more staking out narrow areas of commentary. (Emphasis mine.)
Hm. Maybe I should find a specialty. (Via Instapundit.)
