Words will not do this set of photos of Barack Obama any justice. The pride and relief and hope that I feel that he will soon be our President cannot be adequately expressed.

(Be sure to click to show more images.)

Rex Hammock’s gone and done one of the things he does best: Speak for me. Here’s an excerpt from a post I could have written if I didn’t get completely overwhelmed when trying to organize my thoughts on it. I insist you read in full:

Three things I didn’t know when I started blogging that had I known would have prevented me from starting:

1. When I started blogging, I didn’t know blogs were going to be tools used by marketers.

2. When I started blogging, I didn’t know blogs were going to become a mass-media platform that have all sorts of metrics that measure eyeballs and incoming links and who’s on top.

3. When I started blogging, I didn’t know that people were going to get paid to tell others how to write blog posts and their first advice was going to be, “You should write every headline with phrases like “how to” and “three reasons why” and every post should be in bullet points.
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It was fun being a blogger back when it was not about beating someone else’s metrics. It was fun being a blogger back when you thought the only people reading it were those you told personally about it. It was fun blogging back when you didn’t know it was something that had to be monetized.

Soon I will sit down and sort out the jumble of thoughts I have about blogging (the business, its future and what has been lost). Soon. Very soon.

[via Tiny Cat Pants]