Anyway, congrats. I know the level of commitment that takes. Be proud of your work, here.

Because there are so many voices now, though, and many of the best have been acquired by major media outlets and think tanks, there’s a certain Establishment feel to the blogosphere that didn’t exist years ago. The rise of RSS readers and aggregators like Memeorandum mean that fewer of us are using our blogrolls or just keeping a log of interesting things we’re finding on the Web; instead, we’re much more apt to write about what everyone else is writing about.

Well, yes. And, no. I tend to think of bloggers as 'the OTHER establishment'. There's been some merging, as the old line newsies try to remain relevant. But I see them as two parallel establishments.

I've got all the original posts imported, thankfully, and have from the beginning of the site's existence on this domain in early April 2003. The comments couldn't be imported, though, as they were on an external service. Blogger didn't have integrated comments in those days and my old blogspot site got disappeared some time back, destroying what was left of the old comment archives.

not counting those from the first three months that have since disappeared into the ether)

Who is your archivist? Dick Cheney?

Congratulations on numero seis! You're doing the Lord's work here.