One year anniversary: A note about why

January 21, 2005, was the one-year anniversary of Promote the Progress.

In December and January, as the anniversary date approached, I asked myself a very tough question about the blog:  Why?  I actually struggled with the question for several weeks.  Eventually, though, an answer that now seems so very obvious came to me.

Passion.

This blog allows me to combine several of my passions:  intellectual property law, computers, technology, and writing.  Each of these subjects, independently, has occupied a portion of my life for many years, but I have never had a singular activity that allowed me to touch all of them.  Now I do.

I didn’t realize this when I started the blog last January.  I was still clueless in December.  But now I know.  Promote the Progress is about passion, and that is why I blog.