Those were the days, my friend...

Those were the days, my friend…
: Harry Hatchet (who has a nice piece in the Guardian today on the British political blog scene) launches into a nostalgic riff:

Much as I enjoy weblogging, the eighties version was definitely more sociable – sitting around a flat with a bottle of Bulgarian Cabinet Sauvignon, a few spliffs and Dick Gaughan on the stereo while dissecting the ‘revisionism’ in the pages of Marxism Today.

And this, Harry, may be why so many of us bloggers aren’t as young as we sound. No more late nights with Bulgarian cab for me; I’m snoring on the couch by 11.

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hugh macleod

December 4, 2003

I always roll my eyeballs when I hear newspapers asking “yes, but will the mainstream take up blogging?”
Writing in The Guardian a week after 9/11, Nick Denton said there were 10 thousand blogs. Two years later, Technorati said there were a million. Assuming both counts were acurate, or at least roughly calibrated to the same margin of error, that’s a hundredfold increase in just two short years.
i.e. Blogs ain’t going anywhere. They shall be taken more seriously by the mainstream once there are more tangible examples of the mainstream using blogging to positively transform their lives in mainstream ways (What I call the “kinetic factor”).
Example: I’m getting one of my clients, a John Deere dealer, to start blogging about farming issues, in order to form relationships with farmers all over the world (and hopefully sell them John Deere tractors all over the world, ultimately). A lot of bloggers I know are into media, tech and politics (like Jeff). However I think the tractor story, and mercantile stories like that, are subjects vastly underplayed in the blogosphere. Right, Henry?

Those were the days, my friend…

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