It’s been a crazy and bizarre week. I always try not to take myself too seriously. I started this blog a year and a half ago just because I wanted to talk about Flex. I can still remember getting the email from MXNA that my blog was going to be aggregated and thinking how cool that was. Then a funny thing happened – people started reading my blog. People started commenting. When I moved to Seattle, I got dinner with Hans just because he read my blog. Then when I heard ZDNet was looking for bloggers, I emailed them on a whim and offered up my services. When they gave me a shot I had to step back and make sure there wasn’t some other Ryan Stewart they were talking to.

Since then it’s been awesome. I’ve had amazing conversations with people at Adobe, at Microsoft and a ton of cool companies making use of RIAs. Every day there’s something interesting in my inbox, and I love it. But every once in a while I feel like I’m in over my head. I’m just a guy who really likes RIAs. I see so much potential out there and my naïveté allows me an almost unnatural amount of enthusiasm about what’s possible. But now I’m in the maze of PR firms and journalistic integrity. It’s a crazy world, and I hope I don’t lose the enthusiasm. This week I got caught up a bit and started taking myself too seriously. Jeff Houser (whom I owe a beer next week at CFUnited) once left a comment that said “I read yours [blog] because you’re the most optimistic person I know”.

With everything happening right now, it’s hard not to be optimistic. Look at Apollo, Flex, WPF, the Mobile World, broadband penetration, Web 2.0, hell even Ajax – the web is cool! But I’ve spent too much time trying to be a “real” blogger and not enough just writing about the cool stuff. I need to do more of that.

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