Loren Feldman notes at 1938media that The Blogging Times is no more, replaced by a blank WordPress template with no content. The story is big enough news that it even got a run at Valleywag.
There’s no official word yet on why the site shut, but it’s public knowledge that Minic Rivera had left the site a couple of weeks back. Certainly deleting such as rich history of posts is a very strange move, after all the site was well indexed in Google, a status that will change very quickly with the content removed.
I’ve seen a lot of these sites come and go over the years, sites such as Blogosphere News and others with names I can’t recall now. In the past people would say things to me along the lines that the competition was going to beat the blogging news service I was providing at the time. They never did, but for all the inherent risks involved to your own status with competition, I always enjoyed reading the new comers, and indeed actively link to and promoting them. Blogs dedicated to Blogging News and related interests are still few and far between, and a diversity of voices creates a richer blogosphere for us all. Minic at the top of his game at The Blogging Times was a great writer who had knack for finding obscure yet interesting stories that made you want to come back for more. I know for me The Blogging Times, at least with Minic at the helm will be sorely missed and that the blogosphere shines ever so slightly dimmer with the demise of a site that showed so much potential.
Vale The Blogging Times 2006-2007.
Originally posted on February 27, 2007 @ 6:57 pm
The story hitting Valleywag was not realy a big story… it so happened that they need a filler or maybe they need to reach the day’s quota for posts :) Kidding aside, I enjoyed founding, editing, and leaving The Blogging Times. As Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose would usually quip in Diggnation, “good times.” People would often asked me as to what happened why I left… let’s just say that my parachutes failed me… http://www.webbyreporter.com/?p=70
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I didn’t know about the new site until I saw the link at 1938. Just subscribed now.
There you go! Good luck Minic!
Just to clarify, by the way, the posts were not deleted. They were just moving servers.
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