Shot In The Dark: Who?

May 02, 2006

Who?

Bob Collins at Polinaut on the unspoken factor, allege some, in the future of blogs as a medium:

The unrecognize factor in calculating where this medium is going, however, is the effect of blogger burnout. Most of them simply don't last too long.

Blogging is hard. Mainstream media is no picnic either, but you get to go home at the end of the day and, most of the time, there's more than one of you. Oh, and you get paid.

Bloggers don't have that luxury. With a few exceptions, they have to come up with their own ideas, research whatever needs researching, and then find the time in their lives to actually write. And then do that four or five times a day.

When you get right down to it, not many people can sustain that. A voice today, is gone tomorrow.

I've been doing this for four years. I've seen a lot of blogs come and go - some of them dearly lamented.

I'd suspect that a lot of blogs are going to burn out sooner than later. A motivated blogger can go his or her first 12-18 months on pure novelty and momentum (a not-so-motivated blogger can get through 2-10 posts before pooping out) - and the 2004 election spawned a lot of blogs. We're getting to the expiration date for quite a few of the efforts that launched back then.

Who does Collins mourn?:

All of that is a preamble to telling you that Backbone Minnesota's voice is the latest to fall silent.

Four months, 200-odd posts.

Collins casts a wide net indeed.

Posted by Mitch at May 2, 2006 07:10 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Moot point, Mitch. Government and the telecoms are going to put you out of business. The libs hate you because you have disrupted their media hegemony. Thr Republicans will support big telecoms in their move on this medium. Hell, even the friggin UN wants a piece of your action.
You are like the kid on the corner with a lemonade stand.

Posted by: Kermit at May 2, 2006 08:14 AM

I am an opinion/political philosophy blogger, and from my experience there is little fatigue in my sort of blogging, which I suspect would be universal. Maybe instead of all-out burnout there will be a move to opinion/philosophical blogging to replace timely news reporting. It's a lot easier to rant than to report.

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