This has been the year of Facebook, both the site, the movie and for me personally, as it has become for me a primary place to post ideas and links and get Feedback. Even better, to get instant feedback. If an Idea catches fire, it can generate 10-20 or more comments, often veering off into unforeseen directions. The number of comments far exceeds anything I've ever garnered on Kesher Talk, although in the past some KT entries got picked up on other blogs.

This pattern led me to think on how my use of Internet media has shifted over the past decade. First came anonymous postings to sites, followed by essays on Texas to a site called the Back Word, which operated on a magazine model with articles selected and posted monthly. That led to my earliest personal essays that helped me build my confidence as an essayist with something to say.

Then the Back Word stopped publishing and even vanished from the Net -- it didn't even remain as a ghost site.