Face the State - What a Difference Six Months Makes

If you are not a blogger, you won't know this, and even if you are a blogger, you may not know that Google immortalizes a blog's last opinion on any subject.  In blogging, if no where else, it isn't true that "The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on..."

This blog specializes in criticism, not to be critical, but with the intent of effecting change.  Sometimes the change that happens would have happened without the criticism, and sometimes it wouldn't have.  The blogger can't take credit for the change, and dares not, lest it be reversed.

One of the responsibilities of a blog or blogger who dishes out criticism is that when the situation changes for the better, the criticism be replaced with praise, otherwise only the criticism lingers in search engine land.

Some months ago, we were very critical of Brad Jones and Face the State because he wasn't as supportive of individual bloggers as we thought he should be (purposefully understated).  That period is over and good riddance.

With the new Blog Wrangler feature, Face the State promotes individual bloggers better than any other site in Colorado.  All one has to do to be recognized in the Blog Wrangler is to write a noteworthy essay.  Brad Jones is to be commended for adding this feature.

We also opined in another essay that Face the State hadn't lived up to its promise.  We need to use this essay to acknowledge that that too has changed.  Face the State is a player, and that comes from a blogger who wouldn't say so if it weren't true.

Unlike the moving finger of Omar Khayyam, my finger will, if given good reason, go back and cancel the lines and smudge the words.  Good reason exists.   Well done Brad Jones and staff.

Comments

[Bob George]

I too like the Face The State Blog Wrangler feature. It's our best compendium of local chatter to be found. However, I do have one criticism; the Blog Wrangler graphic kind of scares me. That's one mean lookin' chick doing the wrangling.