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.
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.