I was actually introduced to blogs by my friend over at the WSJ, who pointed me to Andrew Sullivan's daily dish, in the run up to the Iraq war (probably February 2003 or so). Following the blogroll and looking around, I started by reading lots of blogs from both sides of the aisle. I posted my first comments on Calpundit (Kevin Drum, who later blogged at Political Animal and now at Mother Jones), as he wrote quite a bit about energy and I was annoyed by some of the simplistic comments that came up (probably the "we invaded Afghanistan to build the pipeline" story got me to write first!). Then, like quite a few of the regulars here, I joined the comments at billmon's whiskey bar and got involved in the efforts to create a substitute place when the comments were closed down over there - I posted a Moon of Alabama with Bernhard for a while, did a few things with SusanG before she got famous with the Gannon story, and at some point started crossposting things on dKos. In 2005, I started writing very actively for dKos (and, then MoA) and Booman invited me to be a FPer on BT, where we set out to work on the mirror site, ET, which started with SoJ (still posting on BT) and Sirocco. I also got invited to blog in the Oil Drum team at some point in 2006.

Since starting ET, I must admit that I read almost no blog these days outside of dKos and ET (I actually participate very little to the discussions on TOD, unless on my stories) - which may explain why we (I, anyway) do so little crossreferencing with other blogs, something I regret but can't help - there's only so many hour in a day.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes