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It's the end of the blog as we know it?
Aug. 18th, 2014 08:45 pmIt's getting kinda lonely around here.
If you're one of the couple dozen or so friends who regularly update, share, comment? Move along, nothing here to see. Yet that's the problem; those "couple dozen" are down from a relative buttload who were way more active in the heyday of LJ. Back then, I'd routinely cut longer entries or ones with lots of pictures, both for people with low-bandwidth issues and for those who would have their friends feeds slowed down by something big. Now, on my end at least, I appreciate the bloggers with lots of text or plenty of pics. They head off the otherwise inevitable deja vu that sets in, often, long before "previous 20."
Yes, LJ is annoying in many ways, but it's not just this one site. Many bloggers I found elsewhere, and imported through RSS feeds, have gone just as quiet. And another specialized form seems to be dying off: I've followed two blogs which have been excellent sources on local politics- one affiliated with Buffalo's primary print alt-weekly, one decidedly different from the print alt-weekly covering Rochester political news The former has been deathly quiet more often than not for weeks now; all I get in my morning update, most days, is an automatic post by an automotive blogger who posts cool car pics from around town. (I enjoy these, but when that's all there is, it's a bit sad.) Down the 90, the primary independent blogging site has called it quits after almost seven years of online publishing. It presented multiple political viewpoints, insisted on commenters revealing their true identities, and often broke stories or angles on stories that the daily Gannett organ and the staider print alt-weekly wouldn't.
I fear- and to a significant extent, I know- that a large segment of it has gone to the snappier Short Attention Span Theater venues of social media. I've joined that exodus to a limited extent with Facebook, refusing so far to get into the even more limited playpens of Tumblr and Twitter. Yet I've managed a public post here on all but seven days of 2014, and I plan to keep that up as long as I have the words, the will and at least some sense that someone is out there reading this drivel. It's helped that I've added several of Eleanor's friends to my own list, but I'm still always on the lookout for interesting writers who don't focus on Buzzfeed shares and 140-character blasts. If it takes more to make your point, I'm far more interested in what your point is.
So recommendations are welcome- and I hope that despite the end of the blog as we knew it, I'll still feel fine:)
If you're one of the couple dozen or so friends who regularly update, share, comment? Move along, nothing here to see. Yet that's the problem; those "couple dozen" are down from a relative buttload who were way more active in the heyday of LJ. Back then, I'd routinely cut longer entries or ones with lots of pictures, both for people with low-bandwidth issues and for those who would have their friends feeds slowed down by something big. Now, on my end at least, I appreciate the bloggers with lots of text or plenty of pics. They head off the otherwise inevitable deja vu that sets in, often, long before "previous 20."
Yes, LJ is annoying in many ways, but it's not just this one site. Many bloggers I found elsewhere, and imported through RSS feeds, have gone just as quiet. And another specialized form seems to be dying off: I've followed two blogs which have been excellent sources on local politics- one affiliated with Buffalo's primary print alt-weekly, one decidedly different from the print alt-weekly covering Rochester political news The former has been deathly quiet more often than not for weeks now; all I get in my morning update, most days, is an automatic post by an automotive blogger who posts cool car pics from around town. (I enjoy these, but when that's all there is, it's a bit sad.) Down the 90, the primary independent blogging site has called it quits after almost seven years of online publishing. It presented multiple political viewpoints, insisted on commenters revealing their true identities, and often broke stories or angles on stories that the daily Gannett organ and the staider print alt-weekly wouldn't.
I fear- and to a significant extent, I know- that a large segment of it has gone to the snappier Short Attention Span Theater venues of social media. I've joined that exodus to a limited extent with Facebook, refusing so far to get into the even more limited playpens of Tumblr and Twitter. Yet I've managed a public post here on all but seven days of 2014, and I plan to keep that up as long as I have the words, the will and at least some sense that someone is out there reading this drivel. It's helped that I've added several of Eleanor's friends to my own list, but I'm still always on the lookout for interesting writers who don't focus on Buzzfeed shares and 140-character blasts. If it takes more to make your point, I'm far more interested in what your point is.
So recommendations are welcome- and I hope that despite the end of the blog as we knew it, I'll still feel fine:)