I’ve been going through my extremely extensive list of “favorite blogs” and there’s something I’ve noticed: blogging, at least political blogging, has entered a consolidation phase and I hate it.
Brilliant bloggers who posted once a day, maybe two or three times a week, are linking arms as associate bloggers on blogs with larger readerships. They’re still posting once a day, maybe two or three times a week. But because of the numbers of associate bloggers at the larger blogs those blogs are being updated ten, fifteen, or more times a day and the individual blogs of the associate bloggers are languishing. Posts are at the top of the page for a few hours, maybe minutes, and then scroll off, sometimes off the front page entirely.
This is not a move in the right direction.
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On the other hand, for those of us who cannot write as often as we used to and would like, due to various real life issues, it’s a great blessing to be able to get your message out to a larger audience while not feeling compelled to write more frequently.
One of the things that motivated this post was a visit to Caedroia.
OK, that’s amusing. But note that I haven’t yet posted at Eternity Road.
Oh, and by the way, when I do, I’ll always have a link to any Eternity Road post’s as an entry at Caerdroia, so you can still find me there, once the world stops spinning quite so fast.