On the Blogosphere Goings-on

In the beginning, scientists say, all matter and energy in the universe was focused into the tiniest of possible concentrations. From that incredibly hot, dense state, came a rapid expansion outward, and after enough time, I’m here to write this post, and you’re reading it, all thanks to the Big Bang. Well, I wasn’t really around back then, but Mike over at Black Shoe Diaries, though he’d probably hate the analogy, was the Big Bang of the Penn State blogosphere. A better part of a decade ago, he was one of the first pioneers into the blogosphere, at least for Nittany Lion fans, and it’s in no small part due to the impact he made that, for so many years, Penn State has been one of the best-represented schools on these interwebs. For a long time, you’d need to use both hands and maybe a foot to count how many PSU-centric blogs there were, and  all, to be sure, were producing great content. Perhaps it flowed from the top down, from Black Shoe Diaries...