So a Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year to all our readers – OK, OK I know this blog has been all
but silent this year with only four posts, in contrast to the previous 16 or so
posts per year and even 60 when it all began back in 2005. A fellow blogger who
I still read occasionally was bemoaning the slow deaths of many blogs; starved
of audiences by more immediate social media. In particular there was a wistful
nod to the time when bloggers would write long entries/essays in response to
each other’s posts and there was a real exchange of thoughts/ ideas, videos and
sounds.
Despite blogger stats
telling me I have had 60,000 page views Brut Smog never seemed particularly popular
so its decline wasn’t about the audience moving to Facebook or Twitter but more
that I moved to the former and then rapidly seemed to loose the inclination to
spend an hour or so writing pieces. So much easier to post a couple of lines or
a photo, get a few likes,exchange some banter and move on. Facebook is very
good at giving one the illusion of a warm snug glow of being amongst friends
but if my Facebook history was wiped out tomorrow there would be nothing to
miss whereas in contrast I would be sad to loose some of the blog posts. This
doesn’t quite amount to a New Year’s resolution to blog more and Facebook less.
A resolution to do more writing, reading even sketching and less computing
would be preferable all round.
