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Friday, May 18, 2012 ∙ 2:06 pm EDT
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Well, here it is, tenth anniversary of the day I started up “Flyover Blogdom,” which soon gave way to “blogoSFERICS,” which was later renamed “Yippee-Ki-Yay!”
I’ve blogged using Blogger, Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, Wordpress, and ExpressionEngine again. And for a while—2009-10—I even blogged by posting pages I created in raw HTML edited by hand in a text editor.
For the last three or four years I’ve been mostly going through the motions; I couldn’t actually stop because I couldn’t go longer than a few weeks without something to say.
So I’ve decided to stop trying to stop. I’m guest-blogging at Protein Wisdom these days, for as long as Jeff will let me. I actually even get feedback over there.
If only Jeff would let me put my tipjar up over there too…
Anyway, this is it. I’ve posted links here to my first few PW guest posts, but not after today.
Thanks for noticing.
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April 2012
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Jeff Goldstein has kindly added me to the stable of guest-bloggers at Protein Wisdom, which will henceforward be the primary outlet for my opinionating, at least about politics.
I haven’t actually posted anything over there yet, don’t know when that will happen. Then again, I haven’t known for the last couple of years when my next post here was going to happen.
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The lady of Castle McGehee and I are working up travel plans for a vacation trip before Memorial Day, which may help boost my frame of mind. We’re going to west Texas and No Man’s Land so I can add a few more states to my life list. And maybe order a burger without having to specify “no mayonnaise.”
Word is, Rick Santorum is dropping his presidential campaign today. Not to worry—I’m sure Bob Dole will win by a landslide in November. Now it’s time to figure out whose turn it will be in 2016 so we can all jump on the next Electable Inevitableness™ bandwagon that much sooner. My money’s on Lamar Alexander.
Well, you know the old saying: “If you can’t beat ‘em, point and laugh at ‘em.”
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That’s how long ago I started up with Blogspot to generate my own content for my then-news aggregation pasttime called “Flyover Country Today.” Those were heady days in blogdom, when any geek with a modem could start up a site and get the attention of other geeks with modems and pretend we were making things happen. And then all of a sudden bloggers did start making things happen.
Was it really only two and a half years after I started my late-to-the-party blog that bloggers fact-checked Dan Rather’s ass right off of network TV (back when Charles Johnson was still sane)?
It would be nice if blogdom hadn’t become so corporatized in the years since; my blogroll is excruciatingly tiny now, with only one member of a corporate syndicate—and him only because he still blogs exactly as he did 11 years ago.
I really don’t think we’re making things happen anymore. Obviously I’m not, but the bigtime bloggers under their corporate umbrellas have become scared shitless of rocking the boat, lest the advertisers who fund their incomes become too jittery about the resulting controversy. And their worries are not altogether unfounded.
The early double-oughts were the Golden Age of new media. Ten years later it’s a Gilded Age where the former reformers are all smug, sluggish mugwumps.
Where to next? Hell if I know. Or maybe, just “hell.”
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If it ever came to be that I were to announce that my wife and I were going to move to some other city, what would that post look like?
Would I gush about all the fun facts I’ve learned about the place? Would I try to be “cool” about it? I don’t know.
Sure like to find out, though.
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