Blog no more

Have none of you bloggers done anything of late to write about? the last update was december 14th.

I thought all of Toytown was a big blog in a way.

Other than staying inside its tight little bubble, I can't really see the point in blogging on TT. The platforms you can get for free out there - Wordpress.com, blogger.com, blogspot, whatever - come with so many more functions and capabilities than what's offered on TT.

What is Blogging anyway and do we really need it?

Blogging is dead!!! Haven't you heard...

Are you blogging a dead horse Mr. Knight?

I'm sure blogging will die out sooner or later, but there's still a lot of life in it as long as people are willing to post quality stuff others are willing to read and comment on. What's a forum like TT, then? People come here and post, others comment and a discussion gets going. I do the same on my blog. I like the variety and contacts I've made around the world.

Most people don't have quality stuff. Its just fashionable to blog. When the fashion passes, no more crap blogs! Hooray!

What one might call quality, the other trash and vice-versa. I'd say there's room for all of us. Even the worst examples have something to say, and you as a reader can either read it, comment on it, ignore it or block it if it's so bad you can't have it anywhere near your browser.

Blogging will probably settle into being a niche hobby for people who like to write and share things with like-minded people online. Some like to play with choo-choo trains in their basement, but it's not very fashionable.

Agreed. I never tried the blogging platform on TT because I've been using WP for a long time now. I started my first online journal in September 2001 and have been writing ever since, so I doubt I will stop writing just because it isn't "fashionable" any more. I enjoy it, and I write for myself and my friends, I'm not asking anyone to read it who doesn't want to, so if you still do even though you don't like it, it's your own fault.

Curious to see it... err... address isn't in your profile so forced to ask bluntly...

They're all so busy twittering they don't have time to blog anymore.

mmmmm... micro-blogging...

I've got a few hits to my blog from twitterers, but only because I'd met one twitterer in person, who passed along the link. It's not something I'm willing to jump into. But with ever-growing capacitiy and video capabilities I can see the day coming when a few twitterers witnessing some breaking news event and broadcasting it live give the platform a boost toward mass acceptance. Then again, with those tiny screens...

When I'm bored and stuck in the middle of nowhere. Just done one.

I noticed a while ago that the link to the blogs has disappeared from the bar at the top of the forum pages, and I didn't find a link to it anywhere else. Seems the only way to access the blogs now is via a blogging member's profile. Made me wonder if the TT blog feature is being phased out due to lack of interest?

I used to blog about my dog, but when you write anything personal online it makes for great material to use to attack someone.

May I ask what twittering is?

Anyway, I find these Facebook Status Updates a great way of telling others what you are up to without writing too much.

Thanks for asking the question, made me look it up. Twitter.

My blog's on blogspot, hence not here. People here find it through my profile. It needs updating but I'm too close to multiple aneurysms or outright head explosions to write anything about work this week.

woof.

Twittering is the Nietzschean approach to blogging: "Say in one sentence what everyone else says in a blog post--what everyone else does not say in a blog post."

http://twitter.com/

I blog about a lot of different things but only had problems one time when I wrote a few posts in a row about that neo-nazi mob attack on the Indian people in Mügeln last year. There was this one shit who kept sending me threatening emails, real off the wall stuff pretending he was going to sick the Iranian secret service on me, copies of so-called encryption code mails and other crap. Just ignored him and he slunk away like any troll. If you blog worrying about what your supposed enemies or potential attackers think or might do, your writing will be weakened.

Absolutely silty1, I blog for me. I blog so I can go back and recall something with better clarity. I'm too long in the tooth to give a flyin' wotsit what anybody thinks, but if somebody enjoys what I write that's fine by me. If they don't like it they shouldn't be stupid enough to be reading it in the first place.

I'm still bashing away

For crowes.