I'm a blog, yeah!

“All the young blogs (Hey, blogs!) Carry the logs (Where are you?) Dog of the blogs (Stand up) Carry the logs (Ha-ha)”

(..the tune of Mott The Hoople “All The Young Dudes”)

You know, this is fitting. I've said a bunch of times (and likely will again), about how blogs and the blogging online ecosystem changed a lot over the years, and I jumped in at a damn odd time. Blogging, logs, journals, they overtook the Internet in the early-2000s, and then it became commercial (2004-ish). I started in 2006, ads right away. Google AdSense enabled this. Readership was low, but I got lucky and had big links within a week. Soon I had a small income from blogging.

Then commercial blogging died (social media). Then blogging, itself, damn near died (again, social media). And I would scour from link to link, daily, between blog posts, looking for something to add to RSS. I rarely found new material. I had maybe 15 (still) updated blogs on RSS, and maybe 5-6 entries on the entire feed for a week.

Fast forward: Small web. Hell, I couldn't keep up with just a single day's worth of entries from a single blogroll now. And all blogrolls unique. All loaded with amazing outlets, journals, logs.

Webrings, blog discovery tools, blog platforms – it's like the Web/universe saw some deficiency in blogging and in some odd fashion caused the Internet to 180 back to the blogosphere. Almost as if the Web (anyone/everyone) saw and knew there were less of a thing that needed to be there, and was like: “ah, one quick shot will fix you all up!” Keyboard, text editor, Publish, blogosphere!

There's more to it than that. Several years grew it to where it is now (and GROWING!).

Color me happy. I have to refine and edit an RSS feed now!

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