Blogs Fall Apart

Mike Raia is going offline. Too bad; he's done good work. I wish him good luck in the General Assembly.

Meanwhile, Bruce Godfrey says he'll be scaling back blogging for a while -- and then proceeds to post six times in a day. Like smoking, blogging is really hard to quit.

While I'm doing meta-commentary, I believe, with Matt Stoller, that local bloggers will be key to building a progressive infrastructure, but we need to make blogging more than just a part-time profession; after all, the best bloggers out there do it full-time. And as Mike probably knows, even grad students can't devote enough time to blogging to make it ultimately worthwhile.

One day I hope Maryland has something like Blue Jersey, a great progressive blog on local issues in Jersey, with lots of resources. Something like Free State Politics, only bigger. In the meantime, the local progressive organizations could do worse than to add blogs to their website. I think I would visit Progressive Maryland or the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's sites more often if they had a continual stream of new content.