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Many of my favorite blogs (some written by regular ILx contributors) are very rarely updated now. Are people getting tired of blogging? Was it just a fad?

― Mark, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(I'm aware that NYLPM is going strong, & I'm glad for that.)

― Mark, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, if you would, point me in the direction of some music-realted blogs that are updated regularly, and are fun to read.

― Mark, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never been interested in Bloggs.

― DV, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i update about 5 times a week , todays entries are on jean seberg, andy warhol and the beuaty of the moon .

― anthony, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The ease of setting up a blog means that it's very easy to translate the "wow great I could do that" impulse into initial action, and then you find out it takes time and effort and anyway you can get more instant feedback on something like ILM.

NYLPM works because it's done by several people, and because it can constantly throw trivial links into the mix which wouldn't merit forum threads, and because reviews of single tracks don't generally work on threads either.

To be honest though I think the number of regularly updated music sites is the same now as a year ago, probably a bit more - but the cast list has shifted. NYLPM at two years old is the second-oldest I know of which is still being done on a semi-daily basis, the other being (of course) Josh Blog. The average lifespan of a blog, music or otherwise, is probably 6-12 months.

― Tom, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And I think Josh has joined Slipknot, so who knows if it will be updated?

― Nicole, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i like em, but my home computer is too slow, and work is much trickier than it used to be just surfing

― mark s, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Taking a quick look at my links sidebar - purely or almost-purely music blogs which are reviews or commentary based and regularly updated include:

Josh Blog, Popshots, Skykicking, Rush and a Push, DJ Martian, Badgerminor, Permafrost, Eyes That See In The Dark (not on my links page cos I keep forgetting the URL sorry Phil Mass-T!), Sex and Sunshine, Somnolence, Glorious Noise

Ones which are still definitely active but slightly less regular: 1471, In Review, Let's Build A Car, M.Matos' page, Church of Me, Wisdom Goof

The big names I can think of which were around 12 months ago and now aren't would include Us Against Them and Nanette's blog.

― Tom, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i've had technical problems with mine since 6th february, but thats being sorted out, so should be able to updated again over the weekend. mine has been running since august 2000 as a blog

― gareth, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just posted a review of an album that everyone's heard and made up their minds about, if that helps any.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine sure aint music based! I am trying to update more, but as I only have a connection at work, most of the time I have the opportunity to write something, either work pops up or my brain is so fried that I can't think of anything chiz chiz.

― Sarah, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yo, for the record, since Tom mentioned Let's Build a Car, it's moved (see the linky-poo), and I'm gonna try stepping it up a notch and update it daily. (Two days in a row so far, woo.) (If I can do it for 40 days, I'll celebrate by going to see that Josh Hartnett movie. BY MYSELF, of course.) For the time being, it'll just be me & me, and then more of me, so keep that in mind when / if you browse on by.

By the way, Tom, the URL for Eyes that Can See ... is http://cutthemullet.tripod.com/review.htm. Now post that link!

― David Raposa, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I set up one the other day in a fit of enthusiasm, posted one hastily written piece on football and haven't updated since, this I feel bad about and I do have a couple of things I want to put on there, but, you know how it is. Still, it's going to be very useful when I go off to Thailand as I'll use that instead of sending out mass e-mails like a lot of people do, instead folks can just check there.

― chris, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes and find out about all of the sex tourism adventures.

― Nicole, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

natch

― chris, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mention freeek and george michael and see your readership go UP.

― helen, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My blog lasted all of two days. I just don't feel the need to update it, ever.

― jel --, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Were they ever interesting? sorry bloggers.

― Samantha, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes.

― Tom, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Were
? They ARE.

― helen, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like blogs, problem is that most of the ones I really like (w/a few exceptions) haven't been updated in ages.

― Nicole, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Most of those I read, even (or even especially) the music-oriented ones, are a complete bore. I've cut way down on the number of blogs I read. Most of the time I find myself thinking "why the hell am I reading this?" It's sad perhaps, but true; most of the stuff out there doesn't say anything interesting enough, or say it in a compelling enough way, to keep me reading. The good thing about ILM is that it's multiple contributors, and the entries are (usually) brief.

― Sean, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mitchblog is the first completely democratic blog where all (including jel) are not only allowed, but encouraged to participate in the life of one Mitchell A. Lastnamewithheld.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I always carried more than Jimmy at IR, but rilly with a regular 9-5 job I can't now make the sustained thought process work, as opposed to the bangbang inout hyperkineticism of ILX. I keep meaning to start back up, but I've also been in a musical rut lately, particularly since the mission of burma show. Things to say, yes, but what do I *need* to say? Also, because I am reading a number of music crit books right now, (mainly, like everything Tosches wrote, ever) and that takes braincells away too. Recharging, perhaps.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sterling, you should talk about dance conspiracy some more on in review.

― gareth, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm tired and busy but not tired of blogging - I just haven't had much time lately. But it comes and goes. And having done it for long enough gives me license to let up now and then, I think.

And this morning I can't update anyway because my database backing crashed, rgh.

― Josh, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and I miss In Review.

― Josh, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bleeding ears seems to be resting too:(

― gareth, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

2 otha tings: I also want to, which I haven't been doing, start doing longer more focused pieces, trying to encompass more ideas. Also, I try to spend my free time with my wonderful girl.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But wasn't what we had together special too, Sterl?

― Josh, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Now now josh, I love you too, but just in a different way. One that doesn't require a trojan.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eew TMI boys!

― mark s, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you can just substitute sterling's answer for my own. (days like today - when she's in school and i can't be arsed to get up and out - i'll prolly be around more. maybe meaning more blogging? popshots threatened to kick my ass if i didnt post to the car more.)

― jess, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

geocities won't allow into yr blog anyway jess, so you might as well stay in bed (he said selfishly)

― mark s, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

when she's in school and i can't be arsed to get up and out

So you are in Olympia now, yes?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't tell if that's a joke or not, ned. ;)

but the answer is yes.

― jess, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think weblogs are fun. Main reason for me to start one up was just to... write and express my feelings/thoughts. Weblogs makes a person *think* and this can never be a bad thing. To say they are bored would be wrong, as I notice that each day new ones are created. And on top of that I notice people are reading NYLPM (?) and other blogs. Of course maintaining it is another story. I think people tend to underestimate how time goes into it.

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't tell if that's a joke or not, ned. ;)

Twas not. Merely confirming the move was complete. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The story of my tiny blog recently has been thus: no time to keep fully abreast of what people are saying + too much time ILxing + more important things to do eg record shopping and gallery-going + brain squidged by too much work => unupdated blog => feelings of mild guilt => hurried updating talking about records I've bought and galleries visited => depressing decline in quality.

There is an obvious way to break this vicious circle, I know: but where will I find the energy?

― Tim, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Jess, I said, "You should post more because you were carrying my dead ass." Maybe I substituted "kicking" for "carrying", but you know what I mean.

Ideally, I would write about stuff besides music on my site - like, y'know, fiction, even some poems, the stuff no one ever reads. That's where the money is. I'd like to be less of a one-trick pony. Sometimes I think that my slapdash bloggery keeps me from buckling down & writing in a more "professional" manner, but it's better to write than not write. I think.

My desire to blog (quality varying) has risen in direct opposition to the amount of school work bulging from my knapsack.

I like water.

― David Raposa, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't blog because I already have *several* outlets to express my opinions etc. and there's no time for all the stuff I want/need to write about.

― suzy, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

seems like as good as timeas ver to ask Tom, how come NYLetc won't link to Logged Off?

― Queen G, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I started my blog in June last year after having followed Josh blog for a while. I post daily right now but at the moment it is mainly links I post. Nevertheless I like the idea of blogging as you become member of a community and enlargen your horizon by meeting other people on the web. Though I am a little disappointed by the little feedback I got. I want to write more substantial things on music but that is quite hard. Of the new weblogs my favourite is Stevie Nixed (yes you are doing a good job helenfordsdale) who mixes music and other funny/interesting things in a very good way (daily updates). Other great music weblogs I read are blackyellowb lack (the weblogger who has a music taste very close to my own, he also plays in a band called Amscray) and absintheur. Not to forget badger and Phil from eyes that can see in the dark. They update usually every two to three days. Badger even daily.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of the new weblogs my favourite is Stevie Nixed (yes you are doing a good job helenfordsdale)
Oh wow, *blush*, thanks. By the way send your link, g'd damn it. :-)

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Just for you Stevie: sex and sunshine.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh *slaps foot on head* that's you. Know it. Read it. Live it. heh. Still, Tom, bastard, didn't a link of my weblog up on NLPM. ;-)

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh *slaps foot on head* that's you. Know it. Read it. Live it.
You forgot: Link it. And Tom could really link yours, but you know he has got lots of things to do.

― alex in mainhattan, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh yeah, forgot that I did link you. There. I did. But I had to keep the Fast times At Ridgemont High flow. I need sleep. Now.

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thanks, Alex. I let ETCSITD sit idle for far too long -- I got swamped by my freelance work -- and am glad to be updating regularly again. Maybe I'll even bring some of my purported plans for the site to fruition.

Tom: Hey, it's the thought that counts! It's just cutthemullet.tripod.com/review.htm. It may be moving to another domain in the near-to-medium future, though.

Probably the blogs I read most are Absintheur, Josh Blog, Sex and Sunshine, and Badger. There are a few others I visit less frequently but try to read at least once or twice a week, like Tashlan and Taj Mahal.

― Phil, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There is no reason why we don't/won't link to anyone. The reasons why it doesn't happen are i) business at time of first finding the site; ii) memory lapse at time of updating the sidebar links. Next time I do the sidebar I'll have a copy of this thread open.

― Tom, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i try and do something on narnia/tashlan once a week: usually what stops me is the designated but unstructured Next Idea just gets too big and unwieldy, and joins the Great Queue of the Unfinished. Phil did I link to you? I shall have to check: I meant to.

Of course now I am in Shiny New Computer Not Arriving for a Month After All Limbo. This is the complicated yet bad reason I don't have an email link on narnia. Someone came looking for "Swedenborg persecuted" on Thursday.

― mark s, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom, it was said in jest!

― helenfordsdale, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's a thing. Why can't I evah print out pages from Tim Finney's blog? Is it because it's in violet, or is it a frames deal or what? (What = am I just dumm?)

Remember I am old and wear glasses and I already read words onscreen for a living.

Anyone remember who said "Information Technolnogy => the paper-free office"? If you know his name I will go and rub red chili on his nostrils.

― mark s, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cut and paste the text into word, i do that with most stuff i print off

― gareth, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well yeah that's what i do (except at home, where having word and netscape open at the same time generaly causes screen freezage which is prolly another reason i don't update more often), but i was wondering why it won't print as is...

― mark s, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Save as... text' from inside your browser, then quit it and open the text file.

― Josh, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

no i know that solution too josh: it's not like i can't get tim's words onto paper, i can and do, i'm just asking WHY it is that some pages in netscape don't print out and others do

― mark s, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thank you very much for the link Stevie. Sorry that I was a little rude in my last post. I was tired too. You have been blogging already today. And wrote some interesting things on Boards of Canada. Quite impressive.

― alex in mainhattan, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rude. PAH! Don't worry. That Boards of Canada is fantastic. I love it. Then again maybe I should have gotten Herbert (as well). Damn.

― helenfordsdale, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, you did, and at long last, I've gotten my Assengjir and done the same.

― Phil, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

netscape's print parser can get easily confused by fancy html. select just the text & choose "print selection" -- it may work.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 3 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark: My HTML is anything but fancy, but it may be the number of tables I've got inside eachother.

Updating and the lack of it occupies my mind frequently (especially since Tom raised the stakes with the URGENT & KEY section). I don't know about anyone else here but only about half to two-thirds of what I write actually appears. A lot of the time I'll start something, get halfway through the post over a couple of days, suddenly lose enthusiasm and start something else (which is why my last post was a couple of paragraphs about Tweet and not a couple of pages about big beat).

Otherwise, yeah, having a life is a problem for a lot of people. I've had to enforce my rule of not letting Skykicking take priority over my boyfriend, for instance. I'd particularly like to see Bleeding Ears back in action, though.

(P.S. Speaking of having a life, if anyone gets to see the Sydney G&L Mardi Gras on TV watch for me. I'm wearing a Romeo doublet and underwear and kissing everyone in the crowd.)

― Tim, Monday, 4 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Almost everything I write goes on my blog, but I have lots of ideas that I can never start entries on due to time or laziness or lack of development of the ideas.

― Josh, Tuesday, 5 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

indykid.diaryland.com

― indie kid, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Church of Me is currently in abeyance due to (a) lack of time due to increased workload and increased social life (!); (b) renewed doubt about its aesthetic worth and the fact that I don't really have anything interesting to say at present - at least, not about music. Perhaps King of the Boots tomorrow will revitalise me. We'll see.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Check this out: http://dare.blogspot.com/

I write about ICP!

― 1 1 2 3 5, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1 1 2 3 5 demonstrates the sure-fire way to get me to look at a blog.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 6 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

radio free narnia unasurprisingly fell off some radars for a while there but is up and active again

i wrote about ICP!!*

(*ok i actually didn't**)

(**yet)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 6 September 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My blog isn't a blog anymore, it's more a repository.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 September 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

also i SO need to update my links (cozen esp has been short-changed by my laziness i ph34r)

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 6 September 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

nine years pass...

www.newrepublic.com/article/113053/new-york-times-buzzfeed-andrew-sullivan-herald-death-blog

― iatee, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:00 (twelve years ago)

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