Blogging Is A Strange Thing
By Mitch Berg
I’ve been doing this blog for over seven years. I’ve written somewhere north of 10,000 posts in that time. Most of them are gone and forgotten – it’s an ephemeral medium – but I have a few favorites.
And so do other people. I have a few posts I’ve written through the years that still get the occasional commenter, years after they were written; they turn up prominently on Google, so they have a bit of a life of their own. Posts about Plain Layne, Bill Frist, Ann Nelson (North Dakota’s sole 9/11 victim), Kathleen Soliah, the Vikings Sex Cruise and Garrison Keillor still draw hits.
Brad Carlson has has a bit of a brush with this phenomenon. Here’s now it starts:
I am still receiving comments on a post I put together last month. In that one, all I did was cut and paste an e-mail I received from AM 1500 KSTP where they announced the dismissal of talk show host Bob Davis.But the one which really takes the cake is a post where I made a throwaway comment about a long forgotten former Twin Cities sportscaster.
Read the post and see how it ends.
May 14th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Thank you Mitch for all the time you put in that gives the rest of us enjoyment. I had never particularly bothered with following a blog before yours, now I follow a couple. Truly, blog threads take on a life of their own (I certainly never thought your hand sanitzer post was going to veer off in the direction it did). In the few months now that I have enjoyed your blog, even with the sometimes a bit snarky tone that can pop up when people disagree, I was surprised to realize when I read this just how much it well… grows on a person. I quite like many of the people with whom I regularly disagree, and I hope they feel the same. Bumping into familiar faces is a bonus on top of that. So, again – thanks!
May 14th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
You’re welcome!
It’s been my pleasure to do this blog for over seven years; I’d do it if I had no audience at all. But knowing people enjoy it and the little social circle of which it’s a part is always a kick. Thanks!
May 14th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Oh, man, a “Plain Layne” mention. That takes me back.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Most pecular, Mitch, whoa.
May 15th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
I was thinking of this guy a while ago! lol
He was pretty lame.