Comments on: Do Blogs/Bloggers Have Expiry Dates?

By: Calacanis breaks the silence, couldn’t go more than 5 weeks could ya?? » There’s a Blog in my Soup

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:18:58 +0000

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By: Raul

Raul — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:11:27 +0000

Hi Mark,

I don’t blog for money (I’m hosted on WordPress.com, so I can’t really monetize my blog), and I publish anywhere between 3 and 6 posts a day (in addition to teaching, research and various other academic responsibilities). I can’t say if I’m an A-list blogger or not, but I do it because I love it, and because it allows me to create new interactions with interesting people who are looking for ways to make technology work for them.

I considered quitting blogging, but now I can’t really

By: Fatigue | AccMan

Fatigue | AccMan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:48:32 +0000

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By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:46:10 +0000

In my opinion it isn’t really “expire” date, it’s just a time when for any reason you don’t feel like writing. My personal semi-private blog is running since 2003, but looking at calendar I hadn’t made a single post in whole 2005. It was not “expire” date, just was two dates when I decided to stop and when I decided to come back.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:58:16 +0000

I recently shut down a garden blog I had kept for almost two years. I started a new one in its place about tech, blogging and random thoughts. I think as long as there is blog software I will be blogging.

By: Rick Segal

Rick Segal — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:29:46 +0000

Kerri states it well. When I’m done, I’m done. I don’t think there is any magic or secrets to it. Jason? heh, yeah, not touching it either.

By: Kerri Birtch

Kerri Birtch — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:42:20 +0000

Hi Mark,

All I can say is that I hope blogs/bloggers don’t have a ‘best until’ date. I blog because I love to write. It’s a place for me to put my thoughts down and make sense of them. I do it for me, not an audience. So long as I have thoughts in my head that need to get out, I’ll keep blogging. But maybe Joe is right in a sense - I likely won’t always be able to blog about my quest to break into the PR industry, or a least I hope not. Someday I hope to blog about what it’s like to be IN the industry. So I guess as people and society evolve, so will blogs.

-Kerri

By: " » Not with a bang but with a whimper?" from Pro PR

" » Not with a bang but with a whimper?" from Pro PR — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:48:17 +0000

[...] Jason Calacanis’ announcement that he’s done with blogging and asks the question, "Do blogs/bloggers have a ‘best until’ date? [...]

By: Joseph Thornley

Joseph Thornley — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:10:56 +0000

I think that sooner or later, 99% of bloggers will retire from blogging or at least their current blogs. There comes a time when anyone has said all they have to say and all that keeps them going is ego. If they can come to grips with the ego question, they’ll move on to something else.

That something else may be a different blog on a different subject matter and a fresh perspective. Or it may be to leave blogging altogether.

For some people, that will come with a dramatic declaration that “I’m outahere.” For most, however, I think it will come about with less and less frequent until things simply peter out.