Blog-worthy!

Hello again! It’s been ages since I’ve posted (I haven’t written a public post in over a year now) and the itch was finally too unbearable. Oh, sure, I managed to post a bloggy thing or two here and there along the way. But then, in more recent months, I disappeared into real space altogether.

I’m sorry I’ve been gone so long. It feels like I’m always saying that, but then, the bottom line is (…and I make no excuses here) that I have been really really lazy! I mean, why write and re-write articles when I can do a pop-quiz on Facebook!

But, in the end, dear readers, I’ve decided to buckle down and post on here again in an attempt to appease the blog-demons and reawaken those surges that are, these days, a far cry from being surreal. And, truth be told, it was fun… this writing, reading and rewriting.

But that’s not the only reason why I’m back. I’m also back because as I was surfing the net this week, I discovered an interesting article I’d like to run by you, the dedicated and gentle (albeit disgruntled) readers of this fine blog.

Tony Allen Mills of the Times Online wrote an article on ghost-blogs…or blogs that have been abandoned by its once avid writers that had me determined to not be just another dead statistic. Here’s an excerpt…

“Lost for words online as blog craze falters
The extraordinary failure rate of online diaries and claims that interest in blogging will soon begin a precipitous slide are sparking an intriguing debate about the future of self-expression on the internet and whether blogs, once seen as revolutionary, are destined to become a footnote in the history of computing.

To the embarrassment of millions of internet users — from Hollywood celebrities such as Lohan, Melanie Griffith and Barbra Streisand to countless ordinary parents, workers and would-be poets — the evidence of failed diary-keeping cannot be easily erased from search engines that continue to provide links to blogs that have lain dormant for years.

Some internet analysts call them “ghost blogs”, lingering reminders of a cultish enthusiasm for self-expression that is rapidly wearing off. Others liken the abandonment of blogs to “the suicide of your virtual self”. At least one internet writer blames the blogging culture for helping to turn the internet into a “dictatorship of idiots”. (lol… yup if the Lindsey Lohans of the world unite!)

According to research by a firm of US technology analysts, the blogging phenomenon may have peaked last October, when 100,000 new blogs were being created every day. As well as personal diaries these included corporate, professional, celebrity and other specialist blogs.

Yet the Gartner research firm also concluded that the trend would level off in 2007, with perhaps 100m people still blogging worldwide. Other analysts predict that number will fall to 30m.”

And even as I was still bristling, I took a look at my own blog. Most of my blogger friends are now happily enmeshed in the throes of domesticity and do not seem to have the time or the inclination… except for the ever vigilant Nish-pish, who continues to fight the forces on her new blog http://peppercornjournal.blogspot.com/.

So, in a renewed attempt at steadfastly-ness, I have here forth decided that I shall not let my blog die an unnatural death and shall endeavor in full capacity to address issues and non-issues from this day forth on these here pages.

May the force be with me.