Blog Amnesty Day

In all the exhilaration about blogging as a new frontier, it's easy to forget that, even in digital democracy, human nature does not change.

This deep thought is prompted by Blog Amnesty Day, a generous impulse to share the wealth of attention by bigger bloggers with their impoverished brethren.

Ironically, or perhaps not, it started with an event at the other end of the selfish-selfless spectrum, the tendency of the haves to turn their backs on the have-nots. (Jon Swift, with customary stylishness, explains it all here.)

As the recipient of much generosity, Blog Amnesty Day prompts me to resolve to expand my blogroll at every opportunity and try to pass along to others some of the kindness of Jon, Joe Gandelman at Moderate Voice, Mike Finnigan at Crooks and Liars, Pamela Leavy at Democratic Daily and new friends at Simply Left Behind, Sustainable Middle Class, Kiko's House, Liberal Values, Lance Mannion and others listed at the left.

Decades of working in MSM yielded less genuine good will than I have found this past year-plus in the blogosphere.