Blogblivion

We’ve made the Urban Dictionary.

Trouble is, when we coined “blogblivion,” our definition was more along the lines of blog obscurity, rather than blog neglect.

Remember, once upon a time I came near the upper echelons of the blogosphere ecosystem.  I don’t recall that I ever reached the top 100, but I came close.  I had a lot more readers and traffic than I do now, if not as many as the volume of links might imply.

By comparison, between changing focus, changing venue, and the blogosphere growing and changing almost unrecognizably, we’re obscure, barely linked, barely read, in blogblivion.

It’s an expression of relative blog fame.  It’s not an expression of blog neglect, though blog neglect will certainly reduce your blog fame factor.

What’s funny to me is the degree to which I enjoyed that degree of fame.

Mine was an innocent kind of fame, not artificially created, apart from the Great Rat Race, and not done intentionally for money or for fame beyond the blogosphere.  I sometimes regret having not parlayed it into more, when such a thing was far more possible.  These days it’s a mob scene.  Then you had to be a bit shameless or lucky to get really big.  These days you’d be lucky if even that worked.

So yeah, cool that it’s recognized, but the meaning I had in mind is not the listed meaning.  It means blog obscurity.  Especially as applies to increased obscurity after having been not so obscure.

1. I’m pretty sure you did. I know I did for one brief day [g] Ah, the old days…

   Posted by Ith  on  08/08  at  07:37 PM  from 

2. I just couldn’t remember, and I thought I did, but didn’t want to claim it if it wasn’t true.

   I mean, I know I did once in that spurious way where a mistake of some kind sends you all the way to number one.  I was messing around with some code or something that generated a page with a large number of links, and it was a link page that NZ had at one time discovered and taken the liberty of adding to the Ecosystem himself.

   But I thought I also had made the top 100 the legit way, however briefly.

   Posted by Jay Solo  on  08/08  at  07:45 PM  from  Nowhere, Man
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