Jan 28 2008
So, how’ve you been?
Sadly, a few have fallen by the wayside. One of my old favourites, …TheWorld’sLeading…, is on a seemingly-permanent hiatus, although Richard points out that at least part of TWL now works at Edelman. Blog@bilities vanished completely after a comparatively short lifespan, and Jeff has gone very quiet indeed. Perhaps no surprise, either, that Charles Dunstone’s blog is now nothing more than a 404 error on the TalkTalk website.
From my former ‘Collective Conversations’ colleagues, Leo Bottary’s excellent Client Service Insights blog has sadly disappeared. So has Tim Fallon’s. Phil Turner hasn’t blogged since July and has now left H&K, but I hope he starts writing again soon. David, though, remains as insightful las ever and has even written a book, and I look forward to resuming dialogue with Bruno.
Of the PR students I’d been following (as in reading their blogs, not stalking them), Lydia went AWOL for several months but was back in December, Chloe tailed off in April, while Kate disappeared in May, popped up briefly in October and has gone quiet again. But on the up-side, Richard, Owen and Alex are all no longer students, and are forging ahead with both blogs and careers.
Plenty of others, too, are still going strong. Stuart, Simon and Stephen are still doing their respective PR things, while Guido and Bloggerheads are just like East Enders - you can tune back in after six months and feel like you’ve never been away. And on a personal note, Gecko3, Paul and Dom are still there too.
Now, as well as catching up, I want to expand my horizons. There are already a couple of new entries in my Blogroll, hopefully to be added to as I go along. All suggestions welcome.
I am fine thank you but I think the more important question is: how are you given recent events in Moscow?
Seems very exciting.
Hey James,
Thanks for the mention, although I haven’t been a student now for a couple of years!
I’m currently doing up the blog (the current layout offends my eyes) and will include you in the blogroll, care to share the link love?
Lots of people have stopped blogging it seems, I took a six month sabatical recently and I’m not very good at keeping it updated, do you think that blogging is past it’s peak? I’d love to know your opinions.
Alex
Welcome back online!
Actually, there was a lonnng gap during which Staines/Fawkes generally kept his head down. That had more to do with his Newsnight disaster than me, but it was fun while it lasted.
:o)
Alex, apologies - link love duly shared by way of compensation.
Past its peak? Perhaps not, but I think some of those who dived into blogging, particularly in 2005 and 2006, have perhaps lost interest now that it’s no longer the Next Big Thing.
That said, perhaps it’s just that the concept is maturing. The lines between journalism and blogging are becoming increasingly blurred, and more and more people are using blogs as serious communications tools - look at David Miliband, for example.
Yes, but the new generation of ‘blogging’ politicians (post-2005) didn’t happen along until they realised they could restrict debate under comments. Their participation is deliberately limited and therefore meaningless.
Hi James - welcome back!
Will be interesting to hear how the world of media relations works in Moscow - looking forward to more posts over the coming weeks.
You won’t have to post many to exceed my post rate - blogging is feeling the squeeze in a busy work/freelance/studying/family life!
cheers,
sw
Hi, James. What a nice surprise to find you were blogging again and I’d missed it until Blog@bilities turned up in a Google alert I never canceled. A year ago I left the PR company where I had created that blog–they’ve taken it down until they decide what to do with it. Meanwhile, I started a new consultancy and you can find me blogging at Every Dot Connects. I look forward to reconnecting with you through your writing.
I’m still a real-life, bonafide, student. I’m late for a lecture right now…see!
(moved to a new blog now at FeverBee).
- Rich