Dan
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01:22:47 am on September 12, 2007 | # |
Mike, one of the original SoCal bloggers, has bowed out of the blogging world. On the frontpage of his site he has posted a brief farewell citing the all elusive “they”:
They say a dead blog is worse than no blog at all and frankly, I agree with the ever-elusive “they”, just this once.
Around the time that Mike started his blog, there were only a handful of serious Family bloggers. Since then the number has grown exponentially.
Will this now mark an exodus of Family bloggers? I believe it will – prove me wrong.
Ruthie 10:51 pm on September 12, 2007 | #
Naww…I don’t think the majority of people will give up blogging, though I do believe quite a few should. You and me not included though…heh
ZERO 4:26 am on September 13, 2007 | #
I think the ones who are serious enough about blogging to have their own domains and hosting are the ones who may be here to stay.
If someone takes their blog seriously enough to do that, it’ll make it far less likely that they kick the blog bucket anytime soon.
A blogger blog is just a sub-domain on someone else’s web server, and 5 minutes of setup time. Having your own unique TLD shows much more of a commitment. Plus it’s far more useful to the family and the other blogs that you link to as far as search engine rankings go.
Dan 4:13 am on September 14, 2007 | #
Then again Mike did have his own domain. I wonder though how blogs will play into the offensive. I agree that there will be a percentage who keep blogging. But do you see the trend fading now or increasing?
Sonia 6:34 am on September 14, 2007 | #
Such faith you have in all of us….:P
Zero, does that mean that “I am here to stay.”
Dan 6:36 am on September 14, 2007 | #
Well it’s not really a matter of confidence in an individual. However trends in the Family have their peaks and then they tend to taper off. IMO, blogging in the Fam has hit it’s peak.
ZERO 6:46 pm on September 17, 2007 | #
Maybe so,
I think the blogs that are most likely to die off are the personal news blogs, you know the ones where people just talk about what they ate for breakfast the previous day, while the ones that will live are the ones that publish content on a much broader range of topics.
Eventually people will get tired of talking about themselves, and either call it quits or move onto something more interesting.
Mike 3:54 pm on September 19, 2007 | #
Thanks for the love, man. On the plus side, I should now have more time to read and comment on everyone else’s posts.
Blog on!
Another one bites the dust by A Life Without Compunction 10:45 pm on September 22, 2007 | #
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