Spent a little time updating the TUAK blogroll this evening, and wow have I fallen out of touch. Maybe it’s true that the blog is dead: Certainly a lot of the blogs on my list were. Some of the deletions made me sad, since the blogs might still be there but the actual blogger has died and nobody picked up the slack. Some just faded away – but what struck me is that I used to read most of these, and I don’t really read that many blogs anymore. Anyway, the blogroll is a lot shorter now but everything on it works.
Private to Claire, if you’re out there…
Does this ring any bells?
It’s one of the last pieces of two solar panel racks she and I built in 2009 or 2010. Ian and I put them up on the powershed roof where they stayed until replaced with the current ground mount in 2016. And as it turns out they’d have taken themselves down in another year or two without our help, because there was a surprising amount of rot. Also I must admit that, when I briefly considered rebuilding one of them for my own new 2016 rack, the expression “What idiot built this?” was heard in the land. Yeah, I’m a better carpenter than I was ten years ago – but they did work fine for their whole service life. It’s just a good thing their service life ended when it did.
This is the third winter for the stovewood they became, and what with various changes they got scattered all through the shed so I’m still finding pieces now and then.
I didn’t get a sense of scale until I zoomed the pic… at first I thought it was a flattened shotgun shell that may have got that way via some activity you and Claire might have been doing….
I find a lot of blog lists at other places too have become ghost place holders. You go to the link and find they haven’t said a word since Oct 2009 and they are still listed, I guess some blog owners don’t pay attention to their list and it shows. I even delete blogs on my favorites list that haven’t had content for 3 months, I figure they are tired of it or dead…
I’m willing to bet that already there are folks right here at TUAK who couldn’t tell you the meaning of the word “Usenet”. Yet the Usenet (newsgroups) was once the leading international platform for forums. Today the Usenet only exists as a mostly empty shell, largely replaced by blogs and other types of social media.
Who could have predicted that?
Well it shouldn’t have been all that hard to predict. Prior to the Usenet, forums mostly lived on a huge informal network of BBS, (long gone, barely remembered dial-in bulletin boards ) and even before that we had e-mail lists that served as forums, but nobody under 70 will remember them!
So it makes perfect sense that Blogs will someday be gone and forgotten, but they will simply be replaced by something new.
“So it makes perfect sense that Blogs will someday be gone and forgotten, but they will simply be replaced by something new.”
Yeah, the “book of face” and the like . . . more’s the pity.
Blogging has been pronounced dead.