I've come to the conclusion that blogging is a dead art form, unless you are some high profile person. My book blog has followers, but since I'm not a big one on giveaways, I just don't get comments, unless I'm taking part in a blog tour.
Maybe it is because I read some weird stuff.
Sure I read girly books. (I'm a girl, m'kay) But I don't read romance, chick lit etc exclusively. That would be no fun.
I think that might be my problem there, because so many book blogs are geared to one genre.
~sigh~
And then there's the blogging community in general.
It seems like everyone is disappearing.
For facebook!
Blech
Facebook is the root of all evil.
There are so many people I got to know thanks to blogging, but they gave it up in the past years, and now I've started to lose touch.
That makes me sad.
How many bloggers do you know that have disappeared over the years?
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I can think of a couple that left completely. But mostly people have cut back. I think about cutting back myself when I'm uninspired when trying to find something to post that I think would be interesting.
I agree that some people drop out of blogging sometimes after a brief skirmish with Facebook.
There's also ex bloggers who have moved over to twitter.
I suppose the reality is that keeping a blog running requires some time management too. And that wish to do it. I'd originally only planned on a single year as an experiment (back in 2005) so I'm slightly surprised that rashbre central has kept going.
I like the way it can sharpen up awareness just by being a presence in the background. Sitting with a coffee waiting for someone, I can ponder the situation for a possible blog post etc.
I'll also note that the blogging folk that I read move around too, with some long termers and also a changing cast of others.
I still think that the blog is the place where each of us, as the writer, has the best amount of control of what is published and read.
Facebook hurls all kinds of noise into the word stream and twitter can be fun (e.g. to watch a shared telly programme with others) but isn't the place for longer pieces.
So long live this blog and blogworld in general as a fun and interesting piece of the environment.
regards @rashbre
Many of the bloggers I got to know years ago have disappeared and there's very few of them blogging now. It's a real shame.
I hear ya!
I know of several bloggers who have dropped out (including my friend Gilahi), but most have - as Mike points out - just cut back on their blogging, as I have. There's only so much time available, and if you do it right, blogging uses a lot of it. I use my blog as a creative outlet, and I don't like to waste people's time if I don't have something informative or entertaining to say. I don't have a huge readership or get buried in comments, but the readers I have are pretty long-term and I get just enough comments to let me know that people are reading and thinking about what I have to say. And Rashbre is right, and I agree with everything he says. Blogging isn't dead, and you shouldn't give up.
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