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There is a restaurant in Salt Lake City (SLC, for short) called The Dodo. When you say "The Dodo" you have to say it with a sorority girl lilt because that is who goes there. I went there in college, but it was never with a date or a male friend. Only groups of college girls went to The Dodo. They expanded a few times, and have since closed all but one restaurant.
It kills me that anyone would name their restaurant after (and feature large murals of) the most well-known extinct animal. Other than those dinosaur-things. What should we name this restaurant? Something that doesn't exist any more, never tasted good, and was known to be a bit stupid, for sure. Yes, then all of the college girls will come!
For a while, everyone loved The Dodo. We talked about their smoked turkey sandwich, salads and tollhouse cookie pie like they were the best food around. Who was at the Dodo and who were they with? Oh, The Dodo!
And now... nobody cares. Old people go to The Dodo and groups of ladies. It's there, but no longer the exciting place it once was.
I feel that the blog is going the way of The Dodo. My group of blogs I used to read religiously have slowed down on their posting or maybe post less exciting things than they once did. And why should we care about blogs when we've got Twitter, Facebook (with all of its changes), and Pinterest? The wheat is being separated from the chaff, so to speak. Those who have blogs with direction, purpose and interest are maintaining and growing. Those who have mindless self-promoting blogs (HELLO, Ahhnna!) are slowly dimming their lights.
So, unlike the actual dodo bird, I think blogs will stick around a while, but probably akin to The Dodo restaurant.
Have you noticed this trend? Are you still blogging or do you find your interests are moving along?
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Still blogging (and VERY glad to be back on board after my break last week), but I think you're right. Blogging is definitely getting to be less for the faddist and more for the baddest diehard bloggers out there.
Which actually suits me fine.
;)
You're right. Blogging is over the rapids and onto the slower part of the river. But it's still fun.
I have noticed the trend and am sad about it. Many of my friends don't keep their blogs anymore. (Thanks, facebook. Yuck.) My blog was always "for me" anyway, but I am so worn-out from all my "have-to's" right now from my church responsibilities (mainly) to my other life demands that I am losing any bit of creative margins I had once carved out for myself. I am eager to get them back... Sad, but true: most days, my head hurts too much to think. It is killing me. I am a thinker, writer, creator. (Not a organization administrator, party-planner for a majority of people who don't want to attend, nor a champion of lost causes.) Whew. I think you caught me on a bad day. Sorry. I don't mind callings and/or service--just not when they take over everything else.
You should not go the way of the Dodo.
Yes, you have the pronunciation right for the Dodo. Phonetically it sounds like, "Hey, like, do you want to gao to the Dao-dao!"
I find myself in a funny place with my blog as well. It's one more outlet for me to write creatively, and I like that I let it follow my muse.
At the same time, uncontrollably, there is that pressure that comes from feeling like you have to post often and/or make it funny, interesting, compelling. I find myself disappointed when I didn't post about something that readers probably would have enjoyed more than I would have liked to write about it.
I still like blogging more than I hate it. I don't make money on it, never planned to, and never want to. I want to do it "for the love," but there are times it gets a little exhausting.
I have no time table about how long I'll keep it up.
I've kind of felt this, but I hate that you've classified it in the nearly extinct category. But I think you're right.
I find that as I read my posts in retrospect, I get more out of them than anyone else, so I'm determined to continue, even if others falter.
Damn you, Facebook and Twitter.
I am not really sure. I have noticed that I have less and less time to visit others blogs. I am less motivated to read others stuff. I blog because it's fun for me and I make my own books from it. Plus it's fun for me. I hope that people would still enjoy reading my stuff, but I don't Twitter and rarely Facebook...I don't have time. So this is it, baby. Blog or bust.
I agree that the fad is gone , but I still enjoy a good blog or two or three ( of course you are at the t op of my list). As for my own blog, I still love it for my own family journal. I am not ready to give it up yet. Prefer blogs over Facebook (not into twitter) any day. Somehow seems more personal in an impersonal way.
Drags that I missed out on your fun music giveaway!
Believe it or not, I remember when The Dodo opened and I remember going there on my 21st birthday and eating quiche.
I miss blogging. For some reason I stopped when summer started and haven't returned. One reason might be that I have an iPhone and, consequently, rarely sit at my computer anymore. I'm sure I'm not using my phone to it's fullest and should be using my google reader to keep up on blogs I like.
I'm sure no one misses my lack-luster blog. But I miss writing.
I can no longer think of dodo's without thinking "Oh look, dinner AND a show!" (From Ice Age)
K, that last post was me. I have no idea who 4 is and why I was logged in as that. Life with teens ....
WHAT only one more Dodo left? You know my love for that place:) Sad day...
my interests & my heart are still with my blog, however with this past summer it seems that my life is not quite as in keeping with maintaining my blog as i did prior to the summer. not because i didn't want to. more like because i had ZERO time to. with school cranking back up too, i still find it hard to beat my life's exhaustion back long enough to post or catch up with my bloggie friends like i long to. but that's just me. :)
btw, @seven smiles, your calling wouldn't have anything to do with relief society midweek meetings/enrichment activities would it? cause your sentiment sounds oddly familiar to some of my own sentiments.... and a calling i'm continuing to fill at this point even though i've been called to young women for almost a month now (double-dutying it since they haven't filled my RS spot yet, and we've got our super saturday still coming...)... just curious. if so, you're not alone is all. ::hugs::
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