Time changes, Time marches on…you know the drill. Nothing remains the same because Time hates the Status Quo. With Time comes changes and changes have certainly happened in the blogosphere since we opened in 2006.
I found something that illustrates this well while trying to find something I wrote earlier this year (but couldn’t find it – think we need a better search engine): our old Blogroll page.
Way back when any reputable blog site had what was known as a Blogroll – a listing of all of the other blogs that either we frequented regularly or recommended as being worth your time. They used to be on our right side sidebar (like everyone else) until our webmistress and designer said “too old fashioned”. We ended up compromising – we stuck it onto a page of its own with only a link on the front page (now we don’t even have that).
Our’s goes back to July of 2006 – our earliest iteration of this formerly important design element that was considered a “must-have” at the time.
So in looking at it, I decided to see how many of those sites were still around and still viable:
- Still exist “as is” (the URLs work without any messaging)
- FrontPage
- Lucienne
- Weekend Pundit (a NH blogsite)
- Bogieblog (a NH blogsite)
- Moultonboro Speaks (a NH blogsite)
- NH Insider (was a NH Blogsite, still in action (different owners) and in a foreign language)
- Pun Salad (a NH Blogsite)
Still exists with “massaging the URL a bit”
- Have moved to other sites (e.g., bought out)
- Instapundit (was Instapundit.com but folded into the PJ Media organization; PJ stems from Pajamas – a prejoritive for bloggers that were thought to do nothing but live in pajamas blogging in their parents’ basements). Still one of the most important sites in the Right Blogosphere.
- Michelle Malkin (now over at the Unz Review)
- GilfordGrok (a NH Blogsite and I have forgotten to change the pointers as it falls under GraniteGrok)
- Have been abandoned
- Citizens for Reasonable And Fair Taxes – Croydon (a NH blogsite)
- ConChrist (a NH blogsite)
- Granite State Pundit (a NH Blogsite)
- New Hampshire Commentary (a NH Blogsite)
- MassBackwards (a NH Blogsite)
- One Voice In Gilford (a NH Blogsite)
- POLITIZINE.COM (a NH Blogsite – Tony now runs several of the PATCH.COM sites here in NH)
- Radioactive Liberty (a NH Blogsite – now seems to be taken over by infrequent sponsored ads)
- Red Hampshire (A NH Blogsite – An NH GOP sock puppet site at the time. Supposedly funded by GOPe folks to counter GraniteGrok. Financially supported by them, when the money ran out, the website folks ran out as well; we’re still here)
- ROBERT BOYCE INVESTIGATIONS (formerly a NH Blogsite run by a former NH State Senator)
- TakeBackOrfordNH (A NH Blogsite)
- Have been deleted
- Amy Kane (a NH Blogsite; not providing a URL as it has been taken over by malware)
- Drew Cline (a NH Blogsite)
- Coterack (a NH Blogsite; not providing a URL as it has been taken over by malware)
- Ed Mosca (now blogging here at GraniteGrok!)
- NH Election (a NH Blogsite)
- NH Watchdog (a NH Blogsite)
There’s more but I’m going to stop here for now. I’ll finish this up later but as you can see the blog landscape is a lot different than it was in 2006.
