[XR7]

As conservative political blogger Glenn Reynolds told Wired News in 2004, "I know that if I go more than about five or six hours without posting or telling people that I'm not going to be blogging for the rest of the day, [I'll get worried messages asking,] 'You haven't posted anything in five or six hours. Are you okay?'"

Hey JimRob: Are you okay?

But some of us can't help ourselves. Nearly as common as the abandoned blog is the "final comments before I reclaim my life" post. Followed by "an update to something I said in my final comments." And, "Well, I couldn't let this story go by."

Sounds like FR!

[riverdawg]

“Everyone thinks they have something to say, until they’re ... asked to say it.”

Closer to the truth is that everyone thinks everybody else cares what they have to say until they realize that nobody really cares. Last year I checked on the blogs that a couple of my more self-obsessed professional acquaintances were writing. Exactly zero people had written comments on their (many) blog entries.

[mmichaels1970]

The Death of Blogs

(later)...Which isn't to say that blogging is dead...

Misleading headline perhaps?

[theBuckwheat]

The Left now hopes to resume their right and proper role as gatekeepers of our news and opinion. Sorry! We cannot and will not go back. Further, we will press on, to recalling moments when those whom the Left anointed as being only worthy to lead, only worthy to decide and only worth to act made public statements that are now very inconvenient for the public to be reminded of.

Rush Limbaugh showed us how to mashup a montage of the liberal-speak, mind-numbed moments where everyone on all the approved media was speaking from the same paragraph on the same Leftist talking points. We now have YouTube and other outlets to post and store, to archive and recall these moments, which we will use to freshen everyone’s memories of exactly what fools and loons, and most of all, how dangerous the moonbats really are.

The internet age is the left’s worse nightmare with respect to their stranglehold of news and opinion. We are free to have our own opinions now based on all the facts, not just the facts that fit the approved, leftist, template.

[avacado]

That’s why I like this place, it’s not a blog and it's not a sheep feeding trough. It won’t go out of fashion. Just news and comments and discussion. Along with some funny as heck pictures posted to match the story with funny comments.

[johnny7]

This is a conservative... forum... NOT a blog.

[goodnesswins]

Blogs seem so self-centered......FR is better....you have to interact...well....sort of....AND, you can write or not, or just read.....here you see multitudes of opinions and thoughts on mostly what is going on in the world around us. A Blog is just one person’s view, unless of course anyone cares to comment. I could care less about what some little snoots blog says.

[Congressman Billybob]

This is not the "death of blogs." This is merely the death of blogs that are too minor to matter. How many children's front yard lemonade stands opened and then closed during the past year? And if it was 20 million, so what?

I swear, if I ever run into a reporter who knows how to read a statistical study and then write about it honestly and accurately, I will kiss him on both cheeks and ask him to run off to Tehran together. Not really, but I am making a point here.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Dan Rather, CBS, Plus Duke"

[Tanniker Smith]

Frankly, "blogs" aren't what they ought to be: a log or journal of one's thoughts and experiences on the Web to be shared with others.

Instead, they've become "Web 2.0", which is really Web 0.1; i.e., glorified BBSes of the days of yore. Nothing new here.

Speaking of nothing new, only the word "blog" and the software currently in use are relatively new. People have been blogging for years, as far as posting daily or weekly news and/or opinion updates.

In fact, Steve Jackson Games, for example, has had a daily update posted every day for the past 16 years (1993) when they established themselves on the Web. Before that, they had daily updates on their BBS.

[Liberty Valance]

[FDNYRHEROES]

Blogging took off before You-Tube. Why read through a bunch of crap, when you can watch it all for free...

[FDNYRHEROES]

But some of us can't help ourselves. Nearly as common as the abandoned blog is the "final comments before I reclaim my life" post. Followed by "an update to something I said in my final comments." And, "Well, I couldn't let this story go by."

Pied Piper Pitt, are you Okay?

[samm1148]

Just my opinion but bloggers got too full of themselves. I’m reminded of the old Mad Magazine cartoon depicting a child, turning on a computer with a caption about not being able to access the US defense network.

Another thing is this: In the conservative world I’ve read blogs ad nauseum about why liberalism is bad. Okay guys, we get it. Do you have any solutions?

[longtermmemmory]

seems like the chinese anti-internet police at work again.

The MSM too is trying to scare people.

Ironically they said the same thing about tv.

I bet the MSM wants us to “just watch tv”

[knews_hound]

My blog is a labor of love.

I have no ads, no spyware, no links to other blogs or many of the other accessories I usually find on blogs.

I try to add completely original content, devoid of distractions and annoyances.

So far it works for me since I desire little more than the satisfaction of being able to express myself.

That being said, I have achieved a certain amount of notoriety and have published legitimate articles that were picked up by major sites.  Heck, Rush read one of my pieces on the air. ( It was quite the surprise I can assure you when you are listening to the mornings program and suddenly hear El Rushbo read the piece you wrote less than 12 hours earlier).

Contrary to the title, blogs are alive and well and are sounding the death knell to the MSM and they know it.




Excellent


Cheers,

knewshound

http://www.knewshound.blogspot.com/