From the Birth of Blogging to the Death of Bin Laden

The news stream of the country just shifted dramatically. I was up late last night, putting on hold an article deadline, unable to take my eyes off CNN--and remembering what it was like to be in D.C. on 9/11, huddled in a hotel watching the news, and then for more than a month afterwards, as we were all additionally terrorized by the anthrax mailings. Blogging itself was largely born in the wake of 9/11--the fear and the insatiable demand for news and information, combined with the Internet, set the stage. I started blogging shortly afterwards when I and others created Tapped, the blog of the American Prospect magazine. Now, ten years later....it is simply stunning to watch President Obama book-end an era, in a way we'd nearly forgotten was possible.