Welcome back to the SpoutBlog. On September 21, 2005, Spout’s founder, Rick DeVos, wrote our very first post: “Why SpoutBlog?” Several dozen posts followed over the next five or so months, before things started getting crazy during the weeks leading up to the March beta launch of spout.com.

But you could say that absence made our hearts grow fonder when it came to our affections for the SpoutBlog. We missed the stimulation of ideas generated here. We missed hearing from all of you