Well, Rocktober was intended to try and get me blogging again, but it just turned into a chore by the end of it. I hope some of you enjoyed it and maybe even checked out some new music. But what it’s pointed out to me is that perhaps I just don’t need a blog any more.
I’ve been doing this since 1997 or so. Since before the word “blog” was coined – it was an “online journal” then. But now I have less free time, more to do offline, and more forms of entertainment jostling for my attention. Also Twitter has moved in and taken up at least a small part of that need to self-publish, even if it is just announcing what I had for lunch or what so-and-so said in the pub.
I’ve been compiling my top 100 albums of the 2000s ready for another post, or series of posts, and have come to the conclusion that there’s really very little point. I’ll probably still post it – I bothered to compile it after all – but after that I may well wrap this whole thing up. My archive goes back to 2003 here at cm.com, purely because before that I was doing it manually, and from that point on I was using a blog engine which let me move my archive from place to place. I hope it’s been enjoyable to some, perhaps even occasionally informative or amusing.
But I think it may be time to hang up the keyboard officially.
Yell if this displeases you – I do still read the comments – but unless life changes wildly in the coming months I can’t see me feeling like updating this thing very much more.
One thing I can say – my top 100 albums of the 00s will feature a lot less Jack White than NME’s chart.
–c.
the internet weeps for another fallen soul..
Even though I’d only been blogging since 2006,I to gave up last month. Too many other things in life occuppy my timeline now and as you say,Twitter is taken up the slack.
I couldn’t even be bothered to have a static site again. So came up with the idea of having just one page with all my “crap” and social stalking networks all in one spot.
Looking forward to some rock \m/
Dan
*yells*
Yeah, I kind of feel the same (though I didn’t start blogging until 2003), and Twitter does satisfy some strange basic desire to document the proceedings we call life. But Tweets only make sense in realtime. After the present they rapidly become just a huge database of disconnected ramblings. When’s the last time you intentionally went and read a Tweet one of your contacts posted two weeks ago?
My blog reader’s “people” section is an increasingly empty place. I check roughly once a day and am often mildly dismayed to find no new posts, again.
I’m not suggesting you keep blogging just to give Ade something to read, but I do think there’s value in the blog that’s worth considering – each post a standalone nugget of archived goodness. Only certain things can be conveyed in 140 characters.
Personally I’m going to persevere, even if I only manage four proper written posts per year, and even I’m the only person who reads them.
Anyway, as you were…
End it then get the second album finished!
It’s always great reading your little snippets but I rarely have time for anything myself these days, maybe this blog has done it’s job so put a Twitter feed on a static page with some handy links to your musicianship and call it done? Good luck chum!
@Andy_D Well, you’ll be pleased to know that I am once again feeling inspired to pick up a guitar. I’ve had a couple of months where I just couldn’t bring myself to bother with it, but it’s passed as it always does. I’m focussing on the covers band at first, as there is a gig to rehearse for, but alongside that I intend to get some more album work done soon.
Provisional title: “Love & Painkillers”.
–c.
Clive,
We obviously don’t know one another, but just thought I’d let you know that I have enjoyed your stint and your music and besides that, you rate “confessions” by Dweezil.
Hope you get inspired big time for the next album.
Graham
Confessions is one of the best rock albums of the 90s, FACT. If I was compiling my top 100 albums of the 90s, it would be top 10 material. But I’m not.
In other news, I think I may leave this blog up and just post to it when I feel the need rather than tear it down.
–c.