Happy Second Anniversary to Us!

February 3, 2006 will mark the second anniversary of MOJ. I suppose surviving that long, and being as active as we are, are themselves indicia of success. But there are objective criteria: we have had 363,189 hits since that day, and we average (as of today, Feb 1) 494 hits a day. That number has crept up steadily since we began. Those numbers are not huge from the standpoint of the mega-blogs, but we are certainly not everyone's cup of tea, and we stick pretty close to our focus. We also mostly avoid the snarkiness that tends to generate attention in the Hobbesian world of the blogosphere. I would like to ask my co-blogistas to comment on whether we have made progress toward our goal of developing a Catholic legal theory, as I defined it in my original post on Feb 3, 2004, or by any definition, or whether we have made progress in any other way. I will say that this is one of the few places where Catholics of very different stripes can address each other civilly and, I hope, learn from each other. And I believe that MOJ has helped build a sense of community among Catholic faculty adrift in the legal academy, something essential to creating a new sense of identity and confidence in Catholic legal education, and supporting those in secular schools. Many thanks to all of our blogistas, past and present, and particularly our comoderator, Rick Garnett, for his leadership. So -- colleagues and readers -- let us know how we are doing and where we need to go next!

--Mark