Where Have All the Bloggers Gone?
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Dec 08, 2003
Alan Levine observes that "My RSS reader stays pretty grey these days. Many of the past everyday reads of edubloggers seems to have sputtered out." Quite so, and this was to be expected. As Levine comments, "it takes a major sort of OCD behavior to keep at this." Blogging isn't for everybody, it isn't even for most people. Now I have been blogging for more than five years, and I can tell you, unless the daily reading and writing becomes a part of your daily routine, as natural as eating and breathing, then it will quickly become tiresome. Not everybody is cut out to be a writer, and that's just fine. This is why I expressed doubt when some people suggested that every student should blog, and why I suggested at the beginning of the year that this would be the year that blogging peaked. So what of the future? People can return to their more traditional activities, I can keep writing OLDaily, and if you need your news fix, subscribe to Edu_RSS Topics feeds, which are not impacted by the blogging slowdown.
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