Thursday, February 11, 2010

Dying or Dead Deaf/HH Blogs and beyond Resurrection

It was bound to happen, former well known and popular Deaf/HH blogs suddenly or slowly disappear into oblivion, with a few of them reaching out from beyond in a final gasp of desperation. Click on a once popular blog and you may see one last posted blog a year old already. Or find out that address is no longer. Or something worse.

Blogging takes a lot effort to keep it going while trying to be fresh, informative, fun, irratating or whatever just to keep loyal readers coming back for more or just something to fill their day. I know, I'm one of them. And I thought I was finished, too. Eventually, bloggers have their fill and move on. Including, me, though not sure when that will come.

You can go to DeafBlogs.net and click some of the familiar names there and you'll find they're no longer active or not there anymore and see a shocking page instead (even Deafblogs.net is dying).

Go to the Deafblogs.net list of blogsites and click on Banjo's Space and it'll take you here. Shocking pictures. Gratiutous display of skin. Even though Banjo's other blog has since been discontinued since July 2009 though it kept coming back as you can see by reading it.

Or go to Elisa Abenchuchan's webpage and see her last post on December 2006. The last of the rah rah days of Gallaudet's Deaf Protest.... zzzzzzzzzzz........whatzzat?

Or Deaf in the City. Last blog in March of 2008.

Or DeafScribe which continues to blog since 2004 but has been reduced to Twittering instead. Are we becoming Twits nowadays?

Or see that Gnarly Dorkette gone to the wayside lamenting the lack of anonymity in her own blog since her last blog in November 2009.

Key Lime Pie? Gone.

All of the DeafDC bloggers like Tayler Mayer's have now the famous orange "account suspended" webpage. And I think I know why, too, if you read The Day DeafDC Died.

Or Dave E's The Sandman's Sandbox on Blogspot stopped in 2006 to transfer over to a new blogsite Mr. Sandman's Sandbox whose last blog piece was in January 2009.

The "The Countdown to the Resurrection" looks to be largely to have died and unresurrected on it's own with its last blog piece in September 2009. Though not to mention the unmentionable's original blogsite as a mass grave of words buried there with a last gory entry in April 2009 after a previous one in November 2008 in the attempt to reach out beyond the blogger grave.

So, what are other blogs that I've missed that are no longer active or functioning? Let us know. Can anybody name some of the longest running deaf/hh blogs that used the same blogsite address ?

1 comment:

Deafbiz said...

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