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How Do You Feel About Dead Blogs?

Posted by aannttiiiittnnaa • 7/21/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Love them or hate them, there are definitely enough Dead Blogs out there to warrant a discussion!

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7/21/08

aannttiiiittnnaa

I love them! To me a Dead Blog is like a time capsule, it stands alone, independent of all that has followed since it's passing. Making the reader into a kind of cultural archaeologist... They can be so funny, whilst also too tragic for words, becoming very addictive but at the same time kinda depressing. Some would say they are just 'Cyberspace Junk' cluttering up the internet & should be removed...but what do you think?

I've dedicated my blog to their failures & triumphs.

'Blogs That Died Too Young'

ontheblogheap.blogspot.com/

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7/21/08

Hoeno

Dead blogs depress me. I just assume the author died in a terrible gardening accident and it just bums out the rest of my day.

~Lucy

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7/21/08

acousticguitarist

Will they reincarnate as software?

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1. 7/21/08
  
  aningeniousname
  
  No they reincarnate as malware.
7/21/08

wehireu

I think sometimes they are just slumbering waiting for their owners to come back from vacation or prison...

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1. 7/21/08
  
  aannttiiiittnnaa
  
  Prison? Well, here is a quote from one:
  
  "Observations of an amerikan while on trial for obscenity."
  
  sloth.blogspot.com/
  
  This blog died in 2004 so maybe we don't need to ask how the trial went?!
7/21/08

kaguvkov

Just leave them alone, dead blogs can also give interesting facts.

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7/21/08

dlowe

So now a blog has to be catholic to get into heaven? Who says?!?!?

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7/21/08

webomatik

cool idea to have blog about dead blogs. I had similar blog called blogsgraveyard, but that blog also died !!! I don't know, I always thought of dead blogs as junk, something that pollutes blogosphere and needs to be recycled.

webomatik
webomatik.blogspot.com - final contest is on

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1. 7/21/08
  
  aannttiiiittnnaa
  
  Sorry to hear your old blog didn't make it Webomatik, but there is actually a special place for dead blogs about dead blogs! If you give me the URL I will add it to the roll of ironic honor
2. 7/21/08
  
  webomatik
  
  actually, in one of my just-before-dawn-web-is-boring moments I deleted that blogspot blog, so it didn't just died, it has disappeared completely
7/21/08

ThriftShopRomantic

The only thing I care about regarding dead blogs is ensuring that mine don't become one. So I create potential topic lists and try to carve out time for posting-- and I post even some days when I don't feel like it-- because I know it's been fun and worth carrying on.

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7/21/08

CrotchetyOldMan

I have a couple blogs on life support. That's equally sad.

And that stupid beeping sound drives me crazy.

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7/21/08

misterDog

if someone here died, would anyone know?

Like crotchetyOldMan, will anyone tell us when he has gone?

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7/21/08

calais50

I read a great dead blog recently. It was about a British guy who was volunteering as a teacher in rural Ghana Africa. Those types of adventure blogs can still be really good even if they have...um...passed away.

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7/21/08

aannttiiiittnnaa

So true what everyone is saying

Yes, they're a weird phenomenon of this technological age. We get to read peoples abandoned journals on line instead of hidden away in some attic!
They do clog up the blogosphere, yet can sometimes have such a fragile beauty. I often wonder why people stop blogging...loads of reasons no doubt, which sometimes I guess at on my blog. Many seem to complain that they receive no comments & so feel that no one is reading their posts.

The idea behind my blog was to recycle them & give them a little bit of fame I suppose. Also they form quite an interesting picture all brought together in one place...

Thanks everyone for giving your opinion, it is interesting to hear what you think

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7/21/08

aannttiiiittnnaa

Would love to have the URL for that one Calais,sounds interesting, or any other favourites people have. Just post them here!

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1. 7/21/08
  
  calais50
  
  Here you go:
  lastchancetobe.com/
7/21/08

nardeeisms

If at least one person visits it, a blog is no longer "dead". New life is breathed into it with each and every new visitor and/or visit. - Nards

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1. 7/21/08
  
  aannttiiiittnnaa
  
  True! I say keep blogs that died too young alive
7/21/08

cooper

Intersting.

I just read a great post yesterday, from June from an Aussie blogger I recently discovered, the post is titled
"Deathwatch and the new blog". I put in on my news and notes on my sidebar yesterday.

nektros.com/deathwatch-and-the-new-blog
It was a great post( and a killer design as well)

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1. 7/21/08
  
  aannttiiiittnnaa
  
  Very funny post...& a beautiful lay out. Thanks for the link Cooper.
7/21/08

akumusha

left blogging for 6months and just got back.,

i checked my dead blog and it got more average visitors when I was away than the time I was writing.,

just deleted that blog last week.,

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7/21/08

trench671

Just another page on the internet.

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7/21/08

kxthy73

They should make a cemetary for them. =)

I had to make a webpage a few years ago for a class. I just had to have a few things posted on it to get credit. I found it 4 years later. It was fun to look at. =)

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1. 7/22/08
  
  aannttiiiittnnaa
  
  Check out my page Kxthy,
  
  'Blogs That Died Too Young' It isn't a cemetery but it is the self-proclaimed
  'Official Home To The Certified Dead Blog'
  
  ontheblogheap.blogspot.com/
7/21/08

Majik

A dead blog is a window to time gone past. If the content is good I will have a look around if there is more than only a couple of posts. If there is only a couple of posts than its not worth the memory its taking up.

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7/22/08

roentarre

I feel bad to the blogs that used to be so popular and then died out...

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7/23/08

aannttiiiittnnaa

Do any of you have a favourite Dead Blog?

I tend to like the ones that have fewer posts because they seem more tragic.

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