History loses out as Black Dog blog disappears - By N.L. Belardes
Sure, everything is cached on google I hear... but 15 years from now, will that information be easily retrievable?
Sad news today as Black Dog's blog disappears.
From howardowens.com:
Black Dog has taken down his blog
John Jones, one of my favorite bloggers (a great writer), fresh from his apparent spat with N.L. over the whole Elitist Press thing (which I found more humorous than harmful, though if you're directly involved, I can see how you'd get emotionally wrapped up in it), has taken down his blog.
I take this as rather sudden, so I don't know what precipitated it. Just last night John was calling me about something related to his blog -- sounded like it was an ongoing concern last night, but a minute ago I got an e-mail from him that alerted me that something was up.
Even before I opened his blog, I suspected John was hinting that he wasn't blogging any longer -- I told him in reply: Don't stop. If you want a career as a writer, a blog these days is essential.
I've stopped blogging a couple of times. Both times it was a mistake. You can say breaks are good, and while they might refresh and help you re-envision your blog, traffic never recovers to its former state.
I responded in a comment on Howard Owens' blog:
I didn't have a spat with Black Dog. I misunderstood him one evening. Then he clarified that he was supporting me, and that it was his friends who had animosity. I think he felt caught in the middle.
I think that came through in my article. His reaction to what I wrote by possibly diffusing his own personal situation and calling me a muckraker, that was just point/counterpoint... me countering what he had written.
I don't hate Black Dog at all. He's a good writer, and will be a great historian, as long as he realizes that you shouldn't destroy history, especially when you're a part of it.
For history grad students, Bakersfield blogs are a treasure trove. 15 years from now a student at CSUB or somewhere else in the Central Valley could write a thesis simply based on mining Bakersfield blogs, which do tell a tale.
But as bloggers destroy their own history... that hurts the overall work and historical puzzle some history student may be putting together one day.
I won't even write an article about this... if Black Dog feels he needs to take down his public forum, that's on him. But he shouldn't have. He had loyal readers.
Maybe he'll start a new blog.
If I pulled my blog down just because of some negative press I would have done it 50 times already...
-n.l.
Sad news today as Black Dog's blog disappears.
From howardowens.com:
Black Dog has taken down his blog
John Jones, one of my favorite bloggers (a great writer), fresh from his apparent spat with N.L. over the whole Elitist Press thing (which I found more humorous than harmful, though if you're directly involved, I can see how you'd get emotionally wrapped up in it), has taken down his blog.
I take this as rather sudden, so I don't know what precipitated it. Just last night John was calling me about something related to his blog -- sounded like it was an ongoing concern last night, but a minute ago I got an e-mail from him that alerted me that something was up.
Even before I opened his blog, I suspected John was hinting that he wasn't blogging any longer -- I told him in reply: Don't stop. If you want a career as a writer, a blog these days is essential.
I've stopped blogging a couple of times. Both times it was a mistake. You can say breaks are good, and while they might refresh and help you re-envision your blog, traffic never recovers to its former state.
I responded in a comment on Howard Owens' blog:
I didn't have a spat with Black Dog. I misunderstood him one evening. Then he clarified that he was supporting me, and that it was his friends who had animosity. I think he felt caught in the middle.
I think that came through in my article. His reaction to what I wrote by possibly diffusing his own personal situation and calling me a muckraker, that was just point/counterpoint... me countering what he had written.
I don't hate Black Dog at all. He's a good writer, and will be a great historian, as long as he realizes that you shouldn't destroy history, especially when you're a part of it.
For history grad students, Bakersfield blogs are a treasure trove. 15 years from now a student at CSUB or somewhere else in the Central Valley could write a thesis simply based on mining Bakersfield blogs, which do tell a tale.
But as bloggers destroy their own history... that hurts the overall work and historical puzzle some history student may be putting together one day.
I won't even write an article about this... if Black Dog feels he needs to take down his public forum, that's on him. But he shouldn't have. He had loyal readers.
Maybe he'll start a new blog.
If I pulled my blog down just because of some negative press I would have done it 50 times already...
-n.l.
This entry was posted by N.L. Belardes, on
Sunday, October 22, 2006.
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that's ashame.
too bad for black dog fans...
One of my favorites as well. I'll miss the blog, but certainly hope that Black Dog sticks around. He's one of my favorite blog people, and should know he has plenty of friends out here.
fuck that guy
Black Dog had been on my favorites list every since I found him on nlbelardes.com a while back. I hope he is just taking a break and comes back.
You know who else needs to bring their blog back up.
D.W.
What the hell? He just teases us with some good shit then takes it all down. Dammit. No fair. You can't just tease us blog-read-aholics like that d.w. and Black Dog. You need to put your sh-tuff back up.
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