For the past few\u00a0years, my primary source of bona fide\u00a0referrals here at thomasseidman.com has been via\u00a0DCBlogs.com. But late in April 2015, the hourly-updated\u00a0live feed went down and by early\u00a0June the humanly-curated\u00a0DC Blogs Noted feature also stopped issuing its highlights and\u00a0short reviews of recent\u00a0notable content. And since then\u00a0there has been eerie\u00a0silence. The links remain, but frozen in time.<\/p>\n
The Webmasters have provided no notices regarding why the site went moribund or given any clue of its return, if ever,\u00a0to functionality. Hundreds of local bloggers were affiliated with the site, and even those posters\u00a0have let the apparent\u00a0demise of DCBlogs pass without comment. It is something of a pity since the blogger community that\u00a0once flourished here in the District\u00a0catalyzed in part through the commonality of having thumbnails of one another’s posts appear on DCBlogs.\u00a0Just a\u00a0decade ago, blogger meet-ups, advertised via DCBlogs word-of-mouth\u00a0and an earlier\u00a0Yahoo! Group set up by intrepid local\u00a0blogging pioneers, were a common periodic occurrence. Now, I suppose, the number of blogs has become unwieldy and the impetus to socialize with other bloggers has waned as the form has become ubiquitous. As blogging has become mainstream it has inevitably lost some of its cachet. I also imagine people have been put off by the danger of making public parts of their lives and beliefs that later come back to haunt them, especially in an era that has forgotten netiquette.<\/p>\n
There still remains the matter of driving traffic to thomasseidman.com. I have been signing my site\u00a0up for some blog\u00a0directories–not necessarily the best and most selective ones and certainly not ones I would need to pay for. So, I have signed up with the WordPress Blog Directory and at Globe of Blogs, Blog Flux, Blogging Fusion and Ontoplist.com. I’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the past few\u00a0years, my primary source of bona fide\u00a0referrals here at thomasseidman.com has been via\u00a0DCBlogs.com. But late in April 2015, the hourly-updated\u00a0live feed went down and by early\u00a0June the humanly-curated\u00a0DC Blogs Noted feature also stopped issuing its highlights and\u00a0short reviews of recent\u00a0notable content. And since then\u00a0there has been eerie\u00a0silence. The links remain, but frozen … Continue reading BLOG DIRECTORIES<\/span>