Blogs were\u00a0The Big Thing ten years ago.\u00a0 Over the past 5-8 years, a lot of people who were into blogging, got out of blogging.\u00a0 The ones that are left are the ones that either found a way to make a living at it (close-up shot of Mitch Berg’s impassive face) or who just love writing (Berg waves hand).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of course, most of them passed unlamented.\u00a0 But\u00a0some real gems have disappeared over the years – given the number of excellent bloggers that the Twin Cities produced, the ratio of wheat to chaff was higher than one might expect.\u00a0 Other excellent local bloggers have slowed way down, or confined their writing to fits and starts.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the summer, I checked out Casual Sundays with Mr. Curry<\/em>,\u00a0the longtime project of “MLP” – and was dismayed to see it was gone.\u00a0<\/p>\n I chalked it up to the inevitable attrition of the medium.\u00a0 But I’d always loved CSWMC; like a lot of\u00a0blogs, I made a point of\u00a0catching up on it every few\u00a0weeks\u00a0because, doggone it, I liked it.\u00a0 And I filed it away as yet another broken blog heart.<\/p>\n