Some people seem to be going all philosophical of the twenty major departure. Now I never read twenty it didn’t appeal to me, never found it funny maybe that is just me. But overall his departure does not bother me that much. Anyway the above poster mentioned that Twenty said the blogosphere had changed in his time. It has indeed even in my time. When I started over 3 years ago it was a lot smaller and in some ways closer the way that only small communities can be. But with its growth the same closeness can not be re-created. When I started I probably knew most of the bloggers in Ireland as in knew their blogs. Now there is so many you just can’t keep track. Us here on the Dossing Times do occupy a small part of the blogosphere. Although I have got a bit of exposure and some blog awards that has a bit to do with Irish Election and the collective weight of the rest of the posters. But I guess in someways I was a relatively big name blogger (got my name in the Irish Times) . Alas now I am a minor voice in the sphere, avoiding the one area where I made my name (political Agent provocateuring) so that I can finish my PhD probabaly aids that. But where is the blogging shpere overall?
When I started it was more a village where people knew most people in the village, now it is massive and people don’t know the rest of the people. It is a city, some people prefair cities others villages. Maybe that is what twenty means by the blogosphere losing its appeal.
0 Darragh Oct 4th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Hey, thanks for the post. I wrote that, not so much “philosophically” but as a rant. I certainly didn’t expect the response I did, but I am interested in how the Irish blogosphere has changed recently and what impact that has on those who have been blogging for a lot longer than the seven months I have. It was nothing *really* to do with Twenty leaving (as I’ve said many, many times) and I regret involving him at all in the debate - he just sparked it off in my head. Still, that’s the nature of the beast.
My rant was very poorly written as most rants tend to be. The main question or points got lost in the debate that happened in the comments, with few actually trying to work out what I was, in my misguided enthusiasm, getting at. To be honest, it was a big learning, I’m happy enough with what I got from it and am willing to let it die down. I’m appreciative of all the constructive replies and comments I got.