Back in 1995 when I was working towards my MM at Colorado, I had the chance to work in one of the College of Music computer labs where I had plenty of time and energy to teach myself HTML. It was pretty early in the internet revolution, and I created a home page that had some really naive graphic elements as well as some links and a curriculum vitae. I even went to great lengths to teach myself some basic coding and created a guestbook for folks to leave comments. One of the early comments that I received, and one that I have never forgotten after more than a decade, was a criticism of my site and the comment that having a personal website was the height of arrogance.

Now I look around at an internet awash in all manner of professional and personal websites, message boards for almost any topic, and blogs of all shapes and sizes and just have to wonder if that person has changed their opinion.