Everywhere I look, bloggers are deciding to pack it in. Just yesterday, one of my faves — The FAF — signed off for the last time. Last week, it was my cousin Kirk. Other sites I used to read regularly are being updated less and less frequently… and that includes my own.
When blogging burst onto the scene, it was as if anyone could have a printing press. But everyday, ordinary people are beginning to realize that the unlimited capacity of a blog is far too much to fill. These days, the big blogs are owned and run by large media companies. The new version of the neighborhood newspaper has gone away just as the original did.
As for myself, I have such a complete lack of, well, a life that you can be sure of continued entries on this blog. There is always something to complain about, always something that pisses me off. Never fear!
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I admit it – I think about hanging it up now and then.
I think some of it also may be that a few people started blogs at certain times in thier lives, and since thier lives have evolved to look nothing like it did when the blog first started- ergo they tend to let go of the past. In a way that’s sort of what happened to me, but a lot of it also had to to with the fact that I just wanted to do something different (which I’m chewing on right now), but alas all things must pass.
I was suprised at what a liberating feeling it was to let go- but of course now I’m bored out of my skull.
Closing a blog seems to be the “in” thing to do among the bloggerati. As if they’re “over it”… I know one guy who is closing his blog despite the fact that he’s got enough traffic that he’s pulling down mid-4 figures per month in blog ads. “It’s not about the money…” he whines. No, it’s clearly about the snobbery. Of course he got laid off a few weeks later and suddenly the mortgage payment looked like a good reason to blog. Nitwit.