Wow. Scott Horton is planning to hang it up. "Is There Life After Blogging?"

[kpete]

Is There Life After Blogging?

BY Scott Horton
PUBLISHED April 10, 2008

Sunday I read the New York Times article discussing the health issues surrounding blogging. It was a troubling piece to read. And I thought, how thankful I am no longer to be worrying about it.

After 1,322 posts at the No Comment page of the Harper’s website, I am hanging up my blogging hat. The simple fact of the matter is that 2,000 words a day is too time-consuming. It gets in the way of my other writing obligations, especially the long-form journalism, and the still longer-form and languishing book projects, and even those ridiculous law-professorly, footnoted articles. So today is the last day of regular No Comment posts.

Not to say that it’s entirely over. I’ll still do something from time to time, and in fact there are a number of interviews that will be coming down the pike (two next week, in fact), a few reviews, and the occasional speech or two. I will also be continuing to contribute pieces addressing legal affairs questions to the print version of the magazine.

I look forward to keeping in touch with my faithful friends and readers. You’re a wonderful support network, and even though it’s beyond my ability to respond to all the correspondence, I do read every line of it and often benefited from your suggestions.

more at:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/04/hbc-90002834

[Hissyspit]

1. I saw that earlier tonight. I hope he isn't being pressured.

Ironically, just the night before that, I was thinking "How does Scott Horton find the time to do all this?"

[KharmaTrain]

2. I'm Not Surprised...Blogging Has Gone Big Time

A decade ago, I ran a very busy website...busy by 1998 standards, but that was still quite a handful. What started out as a few posts soon became the need to come up with fresh material and then to deal with the many commenters and flamers. It definitely was a 24/7 deal and, while I had a great time for about a year, it became obvious that the time and money spent on keeping up the site was hurting other business and becoming an albatross around my neck. I was lucky and sold the site and it became someone elses obsession...and I don't regret getting rid of it.

Blogging has become the new national grapevine...not only for the breaking of news, but for the commenting on it. No sooner does something break, then people expect a post to comment on...and someone has to moderate or oversee it. One person can't do this alone anymore...and I suspect we'll see others fall to "bloggers fatigue" as time goes by.

Personally, I wish Scott luck and hope this means he'll spend more time investigating and digging...and that's not a bad thing. There's a ton of corruption in Alabama and Missisippi that he's covering and I'd rather read about. Leave the blogging to those who have the patience, the resources and the real desire.

[EFerrari]

3. That's a lot to put out every day, roughly 8 double spaced pages. n/t

[L. Coyote]

4. Horton exemplifies how much one voice can accomplish in just one year!

http://harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

There are 1,322 posts at the No Comment page to read. And some are incredible, especially:

The Siegelman Chronicles

"Starting June 1, 2007, I have been following the strange case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, currently imprisoned on a conviction of charges of bribery, conspiracy and mail fraud. Siegelman's case has ramifications far outside of Alabama. It connects to Karl Rove, the Department of Justice under Alberto Gonzales, and to the corruption of our news media by political interests."

My research is ongoing. You can read more of it here. http://harpers.org/subjects/DonSiegelman/SubjectOf/BlogEntry

My guess, the time for talk has passed!