Confucius said a really long time ago that “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. Well, if that “series of tubes” called the Internets was invented back then he would probably add - and if u r blogging, it starts with a first post.

RochesterTurning’s first post came in June 2006, the same month of Ted Stevens’ famous “tubes” speech. 18 months is like an eternity in blog time- it’s hard work to write the 5-9 articles a day, attend and write about events, and generally keep our focus. Over time, our stuff slips off the front page. We have also discovered that we too lose context of what we have written.

So for the past few weeks, the RochesterTurning team has been hard at work reviewing our early content and creating monthly summaries of our early posts.

It has been an interesting project for the authors. If you wander back, you too will find some of it was painful as in “OMG, we actually wrote that” some of it was inspirational as in “Gee, how do we do more of this“, Much was informational as in “Oh, yeah, I remember that and it was a good point then as now“.

We think we’ve come a long way since we started. When btp got a group of us together for this “blog thing” - we wanted to help readers see how local government affects you and how you can affect government. We’ve been overly optimistic in what we thought we could initially achieve yet we’ve excelled in ways that we never expected.

En-route to becoming more informed ourselves - we have helped create a more informed community. There are lots of different voices and opinions - Just look through the recent comments. There are still miles to go before we sleep so to speak but looking back - We’ve come a long way and are looking forward to continuing the journey.

Perhaps most importantly - we are having fun, you are coming back and new folks are joining all the time.

Thanks for joining the conversation. We’re on a roll, and you’re a big part of it.

Here is where we’ve been…