Blogs are like the waves on a beach it seems.
A couple of my favorite blogs are coming to an end, Completely Naked & Single in the City have both decided that they will call it a day and move on.
While other blogs like The Great Cock Hunt, Synthetic Ego and others are no longer posting. In fact over at Synthetic Ego the blog seems to have lost almost ten months of blog posts, go figure that one!
Other blogs like Chaos disappeared entirely after their online & real worlds collided, whilst other blogs just became private.
Everyone blogs for totally different reasons, some to work their way through an event, process or fetish (like Jared at Completey Naked).
I don't really have a reason for blogging, I do enjoy the geekiness of blogging and I do enjoy the whole openness that technology has allowed. Everything from twitter to facebook that provides such an amazing connection with people that simply wasn't possible a few years ago.
Case in point was Saturday night when I twittered that I was on a podium at Arq nightclub Margeaux smsed me back at 3am to say hi because he had read my twitter and knew I was still up!
Through blogging and this site I have met and made some amazing friends and found out just how small the whole world is. When people living two minutes away know your friends on the other sides of the world it's a pretty amazing coincidence.
I know that a lot of friends (and my boy) read the blog on a regular basis. In fact for some friends who live overseas it's the way they keep up with what we are up to. In fact one friend who we saw yesterday on Gaydar Corner (he wasn't meeting a hookup but it the corner for so many gaydar meets) told us that he knows what we have been up to because his partner reads my blog!
No I am not going to stop blogging, I enjoy it and I don't do it for other people I do it for me!
I am though looking at the site as a whole and have a serious think about whether I should let the site be or change it or archive the entire thing.
I haven't had the time to properly promote the website in the last year nor have I really put a lot of effort into getting content up online. The waning usage statistics are a good indicator of my lack of effort as are my decreased costs of web hosting.
I am in an interesting quandary really.
This site has been going for eight years and I have changed it many many times, but by the same token as bloggers finishing their blogs, is it time to scale back the site to only my blog?