1,000 Posts and Counting . . .

This brief post is the 1,000th post on the Reston 20/20 blog.  These one thousand posts have been contributed in a roughly two and one-half year span--more than a post per day. 

As readers can see from the topical index in the right-hand column, the Reston 20/20 blog covers just about every conceivable topic related to the development of Reston.  It includes a variety of types of posts, including news articles from the media on Reston development topics, scholarly pieces on community planning, letters and columns on Reston-related development issues, and a number of original posts on the planning of Reston, including Metrorail.  It has become an excellent archive of issues affecting the course of Reston's development.

Besides these posts, we have created a digital archive in the right-hand column that provides links to the 26 research reports published by Reston 20/20 and its work groups.  These reports cover topics ranging from architecture to parks and open spaces to the environment and transportation, and many more.  They are a testament to the tremendous energy, creativity, insight, and  commitment of Reston's resident volunteers to this community.  No doubt more such papers will be published--and documented here--in the future.

The documents we have archived digitally have been accessed more than 100,000 times either through this blog, Google searches, or archive searches--and statistics indicate the average dwell time on each report is more than 8 minutes, which means the viewers are reading this material.  More than 40,000 people have visited the blog directly since its inception either directly, through Google searches, or through our friends at Reston Patch, the Restonian, and Reston Paths, among others.  To make the blog even more timely, we have complemented the postings here by issuing nearly 500 "tweets" on Twitter and brief posts on Facebook to let people know of new original content on the blog or breaking Reston planning developments.

We look forward to continuing to serve the Reston community with timely, thorough, and accurate information from all points of view about the multitudinous forces shaping Reston for years to come.  We all have an equity in making this model planned community all that it possibly can be for everyone forever.