{"id":1678,"date":"2007-11-21T11:27:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2007-11-21T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:27:09","slug":"the-shakeout-and-its-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1678","title":{"rendered":"The Shakeout and Its Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2004, there was a flood of new center-right blogs in the region.\u00a0 I called it the “Class of ’04<\/a>“.\u00a0 Some amazing talent came out onto the blogging market back then.\u00a0 It was a great time to be a blogger.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But blogging – especially blogging by yourself – can be a pretty lonely, trying thing.\u00a0 Some of us –\u00a0Ed<\/a> would be a great example – do it because they can earn something of a living at it.\u00a0 Others – the local left’s lonesome voice of reason Flash<\/a>, and the great Leo the Psycmeister<\/a>, who is perhaps the most criminally-undertrafficked blog in the MOB\u00a0– keep their work load in check by keeping the blog in careful perspective.\u00a0 Others –\u00a0me – do it because we’re crazy and\/or we love doing it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it’s not for everyone.\u00a0 The mortality rate among the “Class of ’04” bloggers – while much lower than among the blogosphere in general (where about 99.5% of blogs expire after about three posts) has been high.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Or has it?<\/p>\n

One of the phenomena I’m happiest about lately is the amalgamation of so many of the smaller center-right bloggers into some of my favorite group-blogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n