--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2000-03-15T05:17:15' draft: false title: My very first weblog entry --- My very first weblog entry was [James Gleick](http://www.around.com/)'s collection of on-line essays. You won't find the original post here, though, as Kestrel's Nest didn't exist then. I fed it to Peter Merholz for posting [on peterme](http://www.peterme.com). Anyway, I bring it up again because James has now published an [excellent essay on the collapse](http://www.around.com/patent.html) of our patent system. Like me, he faults the system much more than he does Amazon, though he did throw a few zingers Bezos' way.