Two Whole Years of Yours Truly!

I can't believe that I've been at this for two years now! To be perfectly honest, it really wasn't my intention either.

For those readers and commentors who have never managed a blog, it can be very difficult at times for a litany of reasons. The primary reason being time. When you're a busy individual, it is extremely difficult to devote time to something that you don't get paid to do. There are plenty of instances when managing your blog, namely having to work for a living and pay bills, ends up on the bottom of the totem pole.

Furthermore, it is not an easy task to find issues to talk about, especially in such an enormous New Jersey blogosphere, or at least one that everybody else isn't already discussing. One of the things that has really kept me going is my coverage of the Paterson Public School System and all of the great people there who have given me more to write about. I thank each and every one of you for keeping me in the loop and I can only hope that somebody finally figures out how to run things out there who isn't just there to carry out their own personal and/or political agenda.

I've put a lot of hard work and devotion into Dino's Forum over the last two years. Over that time, I've been called a neocon, a liberal and a 'RINO' by everybody who disagrees with me which you can imagine, amuses me to no end. I suppose that's another reason why I've kept at it for this long. I've attracted all different walks of life.

At the same time, it saddened me a great deal that I had to start filtering comments earlier this year. I initially started this blog because I was censored from commenting on the old Politics NJ and I wanted to create a forum where people could feel free to leave a comment, whether they agree with me or not. Unfortunately, I was getting heavy traffic from Ron Paul trolls who monopolized and took advantage of that courtesy. It bothered me so bad that I almost folded up shop. In hindsight, I decided against that because I was not about to let a handful of kooks discourage me from doing what I like to do which is discuss politics, whether it be on a municipal, state or national level.

So, to cut a long story short, I thank all of you who have kept me going and have given me a reason to keep on going. It may not be easy, but you guys definitley make it worth the time!