Inside Blogging: I'm Not Dead Yet

My newsreader has quite a few blogs that have been dormant for a while. These folks who used to be quite active writers, but for a few months now have published nothing new. I'm thinking of folks like locals Andrew Warner and Steve Fritch - both younger, the former a progressive and the latter a conservative. In both cases I quite enjoyed their "take" on things, even if (particularly in AW's case) I thought they were sometimes mistaken. And in both cases I've had the pleasure of chatting over a glass of beer at the local fake Irish joint.

Steve is back in college, and Andrew is (last I heard) performing street magic - but then, of course, there's Don to Earth - written by, supposedly, the worlds oldest blogger. Donald Crowdis was pushing 100 - or at least he was back in March, when his most recent post appeared, with the title "I'm Not Dead". Five months later ... well, shouldn't we be worried?

If Mr. Crowdis indeed checked out, we should not weep. He seemed like a sharp cookie after almost a century of life. We should all be so lucky. Longevity, in the blogosphere and in life, is a precious commodity.

I'm always happy to see newcomers - like the crass and prolific CincyBlurg, or the folks at Cincinnati Arts. In both cases they are filling a void. In one case it's the local arts scene, which could use a central informational site on the Internet. In the other case it's another female blogger who writes about events of the day - or at least does so sometimes, in between the predictable self-infatuation and yipping that come with being 20s-ish.

They've been added to the newsreader, and I'll click on their posts. And I hope they are still doing their thing a year from today. It's deceptively easy to start these things, but hard to keep kicking.