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"And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing sand, and it was raining out of a low sky, and the tide was way out."– David Foster Wallace
In March 2005, I co-created The Blogometer, which I wrote until leaving for NMS. From July 2006 of that year until my most recent post, I have written about politics and blogging plus traditional and social media at Blog P.I. Other blogging activity has focused on national media and politics at Armed Prophet (2003-05) and goings-on around the District at The Washington Canard (2004-09). You can also find me on Twitter at @williambeutler. As an undergraduate at Oregon, I served for two years as editor-in-chief of a student-funded magazine, the Oregon Commentator (est. 1983).
As of March 2009, I write a blog about Misplaced Pages, The Wikipedian, intended for readers of the English Misplaced Pages (i.e. Internet users) who have never understood the project well enough to get involved. In conjunction with this site, I maintain a Twitter account called @thewikipedian, featuring hand-tweeted highlights of Misplaced Pages news, commentary and announcements of new blog posts.
I first started editing Misplaced Pages as a reader who finally decided to try my hand at editing the articles I read. Beyond that I continued with simple spelling, grammar and formatting corrections, which led to more substantial contributions to existing articles and, eventually, creating new ones.
Eventually, I started working in ad hoc collaboration with uninvolved (i.e. neutral) Misplaced Pages editors to develop by consensus best practices for following Misplaced Pages's conflict of interest rules where organizational or financial interests are involved. With advice from another editor, in August and September 2007 I created the existing Misplaced Pages article about NMS. As my investigations along these lines progressed, by April 2008 I had decided to cease editing the NMS article from this account and, following a discussion at the Village Pump, I created the secondary account NMS Bill to discuss issues of interest to NMS and its clients. Upon leaving NMS in August 2010, this account has been retired, and I have continued to work on client articles (now only via discussion on Talk pages) from a separate disclosed account, WWB Too. Surprisingly enough to me, these days the majority of my Misplaced Pages activity is conducted through that account. However, I continue to edit for fun from this account, and expect I always will.
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