(Washington, DC) I started blogging on Jan. 9, 2003 and have since published 2,176 posts, almost one per workday. Every year on my blogaversary, I reflect on the year’s blogging. In 2011, the biggest change was a shift to WordPress, which allowed me to accept comments again and to embed Facebook and Twitter buttons. (I find I have a Pavlovian reaction to “likes” and Tweets.)

My favorite posts on my own blog this year  included:

• three truths and a question about happiness
• Seascape (poem)
• reform the university to meet the public’s knowledge needs in an age of information overload (mainly a video)
• a ten-point plan for civic renewal
• on religion in public debates and specifically in middle school classrooms
• nine general but contradictory truths
• snapshots of Black politics
• if we are going to put millions in prison, WE should make millions of decisions
• rebirth without metaphysics
• Robert Lowell at the Indian Killer’s Grave (criticism)
• Syracuse University: slide or rise?
• what would Jane Addams say?
• nostalgia

I also posted more frequently on other blogs in 2011, including: “If You Want Citizens to Trust Government, Empower Them to Govern” (on the Democratic Strategist blog), “Young, Black, and Voting” (on the Root), and four entries on HuffingtonPost.