tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post3265056083651659790..comments2023-10-24T14:51:45.756+02:00Comments on Bloggertropolis: Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-58072169836542287272012-03-20T23:23:05.735+01:002012-03-20T23:23:05.735+01:00Hannah: thank you - that's very kind. I do hop...Hannah: thank you - that's very kind. I do hope you'll be back.<br /><br />Marginalia: all the references to elves and dwarf armour on your blog gave the game away.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-51524751789022652772012-03-20T22:47:30.366+01:002012-03-20T22:47:30.366+01:00Shit, how did you guess?Shit, how did you guess?Marginaliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01175372147298306908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-28190988158188236222012-03-20T21:53:24.287+01:002012-03-20T21:53:24.287+01:00I'm brand new to blogging... and just test dri...I'm brand new to blogging... and just test driving at the moment... love a good read... and like your blog very much... I hope I'll find more bloggers like you around!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09894458424175347031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-70211973987267500012012-03-20T20:49:10.022+01:002012-03-20T20:49:10.022+01:00Marginalia: don't give me that "busy"...Marginalia: don't give me that "busy" bollocks. It's been winter for the last few months. No gardening to do. You've had plenty of time to write stuff. <br /><br />You've bought an X Box, haven't you? That's what it is! While I've been blogging you've been playing Skyrim.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-81936170752556251842012-03-20T20:40:33.901+01:002012-03-20T20:40:33.901+01:00You're talking about me, I know you are.
Look...You're talking about me, I know you are.<br /><br />Look I feel as guilty as hell not giving you a regular laugh at least once a week, but I'm busy. Get that busy...that means not sitting in front of the computer trying to think of something funny to write about.<br /><br />I know you think that's not much of an excuse, but look I've a life to lead, a position to maintain and a houseful of cats and a wife to feed - in that order.<br /><br />Maybe when the pressure's off, when the pay cheque lands and the frigging' world's stops pissin' me about I may have the time to put pen to paper.<br /><br />In the mean time you'll have to be satisfied with 400 odd gems in my back catalogue!Marginaliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01175372147298306908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-46638001430512127132012-03-19T19:52:26.497+01:002012-03-19T19:52:26.497+01:00Suzanne: thank you. You shall forever more be on m...Suzanne: thank you. You shall forever more be on my list.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-73004136162936089422012-03-19T19:26:02.609+01:002012-03-19T19:26:02.609+01:00OOOh good call. I have slightly lost my blogging m...OOOh good call. I have slightly lost my blogging mojo, reading blogs and posting on my own blog. TBH ICBA, as the youth of today would text.There are just a handful I return to. You, my man , are on my list. I love your writing.Suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00705692916293482229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-81417004640035030702012-03-19T14:04:42.202+01:002012-03-19T14:04:42.202+01:00Perpetua: your experience is very reassuring. Plai...Perpetua: your experience is very reassuring. Plainly there are different blogging circles - some that I am not part of or am not aware of. Maybe it's not all doom and gloom after all? :-)Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-40904980821205129562012-03-19T13:07:27.425+01:002012-03-19T13:07:27.425+01:00Fascinating post and comments, Steve. I followed t...Fascinating post and comments, Steve. I followed the link from Fly's latest post and am interested how different your experience is from mine as a pretty new blogger (just over a year).<br /><br />I follow some 70 blogs, of which only a small handful have a few ads and I haven't seen that change at all. One blog has closed and one is intermittent for personal reasons, but the rest post almost more often than I can keep up with. :-)<br /><br />I'm retired which means I have plenty of time to write and also to read others and i have to say that my small corner of the blogospere seems to be in the rudest of health and perennially interesting. <br /><br />I can well imagine that younger bloggers with a living to make in a hard financial climate may well find blogging a luxury they can't afford unless it makes money for them. Yet there are still lots of bloggers out there who write beautifully, have interesting things to say and constantly challenge my ideas and opinions.Perpetuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01214396019726161983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-1959800040246066182012-03-19T09:00:23.739+01:002012-03-19T09:00:23.739+01:00Lady Mondegreen's Secret Garden: the bit I hat...Lady Mondegreen's Secret Garden: the bit I hate is trimming the feathers so they can take the ink...Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-20114365666991775902012-03-18T22:53:27.337+01:002012-03-18T22:53:27.337+01:00Concerning real letters: a friend recently recount...Concerning real letters: a friend recently recounted sending her teenage son to buy a stamp and post a letter - the boy didn't know where to put the stamp!<br />PS the real world is cold and wet so I feel justified in sitting at my computer ... just :-)Lady Mondegreen's Secret Gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07638813551209321151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-56358932696881398212012-03-18T21:06:38.087+01:002012-03-18T21:06:38.087+01:00Femminismo: so nice to welcome an old friend back ...Femminismo: so nice to welcome an old friend back to the fold!Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-36348314234642694922012-03-18T18:58:21.837+01:002012-03-18T18:58:21.837+01:00In case you took me off (I haven't looked) I d...In case you took me off (I haven't looked) I did blog yesterday. I was finally looking through pictures of my old blog days and I used to have so much FUN! (The ice cream party I had for a few odd dolls - real dolls - looked so pretty like a magazine layout. I'll do better, Steve. Good to read you again!femminismohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05259380168965137800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-12301356818711180032012-03-18T12:29:37.419+01:002012-03-18T12:29:37.419+01:00Being Me: I'd be so pleased to have you hangin...Being Me: I'd be so pleased to have you hanging around but, please, don't be down with the cockroaches... they're dirty and not at all appealing. I must admit, I can't imagine not blogging and yet, sometimes, just sometimes, I do question why I'm here.<br /><br />Lady Mondegreen's Secret Garden: I think blogging less because you are living more is actually the right way to go about (just as long as you don't disappear from the blogosphere forever). As for letters... yeah... I miss those. I used to have penfriends and everything and, ironically, since the advent of the internet they fell by the wayside.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-50186242887142023312012-03-18T10:37:26.391+01:002012-03-18T10:37:26.391+01:00Steve, we nearly lost your distinctive voice there...Steve, we nearly lost your distinctive voice there for a bit, when things were going badly at nursery school. I can't say that I've come across these full-on advertisisng blogs and I do have to chuckle when I clean out my spam box and read the exhortations to harvest more hits and comments. Ye gods, with my slow old computer what I get now is about what I can deal with and I do enjoy the interaction with people that I have established a rapport (if not actually a friendship) with.<br />Certainly as I come out of the worst of bereavement and realise that I have 3 acres of land to manage and two houses to restore on my own, I am exercising discipline with myself regarding blogging and that means reducing the time I spend at the computer. Ironically, this happens as I build a presence and come up in searches more for a wide variety of reasons. All things change with time. Who knows if the blogosphere goes belly-up, some of us may just end up writing each other good old fashioned letters!Lady Mondegreen's Secret Gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07638813551209321151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-63159079086124272942012-03-18T09:55:50.295+01:002012-03-18T09:55:50.295+01:00My God. I am leisured. And needy. I learnt this fr...My God. I am leisured. And needy. I learnt this from a gorilla.<br /><br />I know what you mean. I feel the barrenness of the blogs that "used to be". Although, it seems to still be alive and well here in Aust., there are many who get caught in the voting/blog-for-money trap... and then lose direction. Conversely, there are those who do that and do it very successfully. I am not one of them.<br /><br />You can count on one thing: I'll be here with the cockroaches after the bomb drops. In some form or another. I just cannot imagine a life without a blog now, after 7 years. I'd like to think it's about growth and evolution, not about hanging around never changing.Being Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600427311498297800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-86891712076474411362012-03-18T07:57:43.547+01:002012-03-18T07:57:43.547+01:00Löst Jimmy: do you offer discounts on leather corn...Löst Jimmy: do you offer discounts on leather corner suites?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-73163211691827488112012-03-18T05:34:26.658+01:002012-03-18T05:34:26.658+01:00It's a fickle blogging world out there Steve.
...It's a fickle blogging world out there Steve.<br /><br />(Acme Living Room Furntiture, sponsors of this blog comment)Löst Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09907139441842698894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-50078197556247559922012-03-17T22:38:38.659+01:002012-03-17T22:38:38.659+01:00Suburbia: I wonder how many new blogs are popping ...Suburbia: I wonder how many new blogs are popping into existence just so people can sell the advertizing space? The blogging world is changing... and not for the better.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-80828862926750133992012-03-17T22:05:56.127+01:002012-03-17T22:05:56.127+01:00Yep, really with you on this one. I was so despera...Yep, really with you on this one. I was so desperate I went back to old posts to see who was missing and looked them up. It wasn't until I realised one blogger was dead that it really made me understand how real this blogging thing is. It felt unbearably sad.<br /><br />However as you said many have just disappeared without trace. <br /><br />I have tried to visit blogs I've not been to before recently but the etiquette of visiting back seems to have died! <br /><br />Hey ho!Suburbiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05352465945711496612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-77204422129474033022012-03-17T21:08:36.210+01:002012-03-17T21:08:36.210+01:00Rol: it's an ironic fact that isn't lost o...Rol: it's an ironic fact that isn't lost on me either - sometimes we need a shit job to enable the creative juices to flow.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-25837594225407800882012-03-17T20:36:21.213+01:002012-03-17T20:36:21.213+01:00I realised recently that I had a LOT more blogging...I realised recently that I had a LOT more blogging time back when I had the old job. I'd regularly spend a large part of my afternoon writing blogposts (and reading everyone else's) because I had very little else to do. Now I don't have a job but I'm spending my time training, teaching, running up and down... when I *do* get back in front of the pc, my time is far more precious. Who knows how that'll work out?Rolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-56865896743783556832012-03-17T17:48:44.459+01:002012-03-17T17:48:44.459+01:00English Rider: you make some interesting and worth...English Rider: you make some interesting and worthwhile points. I do think there is a sea-change in blogging at the moment and it is not necessarily for the better. But blogging is still a democracy and people vote with their time and their comments. There's always hope.<br /><br />Trish: stuff in the sidebar is fine and the occasional post too. But when the balance shifts the other way and it becomes all about "sell sell sell" then I am afraid I turn my blogging eyes elsewhere. You are perfectly safe. Thought you'd got rid of me, didn't you? ;-)Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02133900289384226725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-46392553217333293672012-03-17T17:13:39.024+01:002012-03-17T17:13:39.024+01:00I'm still here but I'm conscious I have a ...I'm still here but I'm conscious I have a bit of advertising in the sidebar and will now and again review stuff. I hope you won't abandon me. I haven't sold my blogging soul to the devil just yet...I just rent it out on a pay as you go basis.Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00119443727504215312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35009574.post-72646949567335091862012-03-17T16:32:28.925+01:002012-03-17T16:32:28.925+01:00Interesting post, as always. I too have felt that ...Interesting post, as always. I too have felt that many quality "writer-humans with points of view" have dropped off. Some have died. Blogging has allowed many people, isolated by illness or age, to have a voice and a connection with the rest of the world. One dear woman had throat cancer and could not speak. Blogging was her voice. It's kind when their families let us know when the last post has been written.<br />There are a couple of bloggers I really liked who may be in witness protection, jail, or otherwise on the run. There are some whose blogs were tyrannized by evil family members and so they left.<br />Mostly though, I like to think that our lives are filling up with other things. Blogging means you have something to do, besides worry and wait for a silent phone to ring. It is a welcome crutch.<br />I have noticed that early on we search out new connections, click on the avatars of those who leave interesting comments on others' blogs. Have we become complacent ? Do we expect others' to do all the legwork? Do you even read comments on other blogs now, or do you skip to the comment form and say your piece and leave?<br />I plead guilty to most of the above.English Riderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712384532126551307noreply@blogger.com