Monday, April 30, 2007

THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE JBLOGOSPHERE: Is the JBlogosphere maturing that quickly that already we can look over our shoulder and talk about its Golden Age? Teppenwitz recalls:
Back in the golden days of the Jblogosphere (IMHO late 2003 to early 2004), there were few enough of us writing that it was sort of inevitable that we would read and interact with bloggers that lived substantially different lives... and believed substantially different things. And because I made myself part of their world on a daily basis, many of these fine writers frequently came to see what was going on over here.

But with the exponential explosion of Jblogs, many readers (and writers) began to gravitate towards cliques of like-minded folks and adopted the habit of checking in on 'the others' only infrequently (if at all).
It doesn't much matter if you refer to that time as the JBlogosphere's Golden Age (or its infancy), the JBlogosphere is growing by leaps and bounds just like the Blogosphere itself.

To use a metaphor: maybe it's just that the honeymoon--that initial period of harmony and goodwill--is over.

Random Thoughts also mulls over the idea of The Golden Age of the JBlogosphere.

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7 comments:

  1. Jack Steiner2:37 AM

    To use a metaphor: maybe it's just that the honeymoon--that initial period of harmony and goodwill--is over.


    I don't know if there was any more or any less than there is now. The big difference is that the community was small enough to feel like a community.

    Now it is less like a small town and more like a big city.

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  2. Ezzie10:21 AM

    What Jack said. Plus, everyone thinks the 'golden age' was when they thought they knew everyone and everyone knew them. Once they realize it's WAY bigger...

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  3. Daled Amos10:36 AM

    I guess there's a big difference between Golden Age and Golden Years...

    Anyway, I think there is a cohesiveness in the JBlogosphere that does not exist in the Blogosphere as a whole.

    I hope.

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  4. Ezzie10:38 AM

    Heh. I don't know about that...

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  5. Daled Amos10:40 AM

    I assume you are referring to the second half of my comment...which is unfortunate.

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  6. Ezzie4:07 PM

    Sadly, yes.

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  7. Daled Amos5:28 PM

    I'd like to think that there is a difference in a virtual environment where many of the people are anonymous--a difference that makes it inaccurate (and misleading) to extrapolate to the 'real' world.

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