blissblogger
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I remember it as the MP3 blogs existing concurrently with our kind of blogs, and just being this completely other world - and obviously much more widely read. their existence didn't affect our little world at all, i don't think. i really did notice people who had blogs, stopping, and then become very active Facebookers, writing beautifully written little mini-essays. my old pal David Stubbs for instance. And then Twitter supplies that sort of instant hit of connection that lonely freelance types crave, and affirmation buzz, much more effectively than a blog does.
There were also blogs and quasi-blogs (very regularly updated webzines, sometimes collective but often dominated by a single voice) that existed before Blissblog/Woebot/K-punk etc, for a good year or two. Tim Finney's Skykicking, the portly prelate of punctum, Freaky Trigger and its precursor New York London Paris Munich, etc etc. it was them that inspired me to start one.
However i learned later that for the coding for Freaky or perhaps New York London Paris Munich, Tom Ewing actually cut-and-pasted the coding for my website Blissout aka A White Brit Raver Thinks Aloud - and made a few alterations.
This makes me the Sniffin' Glue of blogs. Although the credit should go to my wife who actually did the coding and is all around internet computer whiz, early adopter type. i wouldn't even have email without her.
