Spring must be the season when people turn their minds to starting blogs, or at least spring 2005 was when some excellent people did. It’s the three year blogiversary for both Pavlov’s Cat and Hoyden About Town. Warm salutations and felicitations to both!
Pavlov’s Cat also has some interesting reflections on being a sociable blogger, and how addictive it can be. It’s well worth remembering that there is stuff to do other than correct people who are wrong on the internets. At a time when so many blogs are making the switch to the Crikey platform, and others are considering such a move (and that comments thread is worth a read), I think it’s important both to celebrate the independent blogosphere (not that I’m knocking the Crikey folks – quite the contrary) and blogging as an amateur practice in the best sense of the word – do it as long it’s fun and rewarding, and you’re writing about what you’re passionate about, not as a chore or because you think you’re on a mission to change the world. Remember that next time some concern troll or trollblogger denounces the whole show as falling short of the high standards the MSM sets for “balance and fact” or loudly condemns you for not blogging about this or that. The public sphere isn’t all uber serious rational deliberation (is it ever?) but a space for expression and enjoyment, or it should be.
Speaking of blogging, Rx advised in comments that Tim Dunlop’s commenting crew from the now sadly erstwhile Blogocracy have set themselves up in their own digs. That’s an interesting development, and it also goes to show one other important thing about the blogosphere – it’s the community that matters.
Elsewhere: Boynton.
Update: Lyn Calcutt at Public Opinion on the redistribution going on around the blogosphere.
Thank you for the felicitations, Kim!
Having a quiet long weekend with the family, not got much blogging done for a few days, but definitely it is the community around a blog that matters. There’s no point doing it otherwise.
That’s lovely, thank you.
You are so right about the importance of not letting it become a chore, too!
Pleasure, folks!
Elsewhere: Boynton.
felicitations to both of you – I am a happy albeit sporadic reader of both your blogs, and consider the blogosphere and my life all the richer for their existence.
A special hat-tip to Hoyden for the fab Emma Peel pics.
Thanks for the link, Kim.
And congrats to PC and Hoydens for running great blogs and enhancing the oz blogosphere with wise sociability.
No probs, boynton! And thanks to you for your link!
Update: Lyn Calcutt at Public Opinion on the redistribution going on around the blogosphere.
Pavlov’s Cat and Hoyden A T:
Congratulations. Keep up the good work.
Congratualtiations guys.
Another Spring starter, The Worst of Perth turned 1 year old this week. If blogs were children, you might have been able to connect them with New years Eve 9 months before.
Only 1 year after not even reading blogs, I may (still not confirmed) be speaking on a panel at the Future of Journalism event next to Poll Bludger’s William Bowe.
Happy blogiversary, Worst of Perth!
Congratualtiations guys.
Dude, they’re not guys.
And a very happy blogiversary from me too!