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The A-List Blogging Death Pool
And so it begins, I predict that A-list bloggers will start jumping ship from the blogosphere. Dave Winer is the first. That’s why I am officially starting the A-list blogging death pool. Here’s Dave’s reason.
Blogging doesn’t need me anymore. It’ll go on just as well, maybe even better, with some new space opened up for some new things. But more important to me, there will be new space for me. Blogging not only takes a lot of time (which I don’t begrudge it, I love writing) but it also limits what I can do, because it’s made me a public figure. I want some privacy, I want to matter less, so I can retool, and matter more, in different ways. What those ways are, however, are things I won’t be talking about here. That’s the point. That’s the big reason why.
So there you have it. Who will be next? Who else on the A-List ‘doesn’t feel needed anymore?’ You tell me, who will be the next to go?
List courtesy of Blogebrity.
Ali, Rafat
Alterman, Eric
>Althouse,
Ann
Anderson, Chris
Armstrong, Heather
>Armstrong,
Jerome
>Arrington,
Michael
Baio, Andy
Barger, Jorn
>Battelle,
John
Beattie, Russell
>Biggs,
John
>Black,
Duncan (Atrios)
Blood, Rebecca
>Bonner,
Sean
boyd, danah
Boyd, Stowe
Braff, Zach
Bruner, Rick
Butterfield, Stewart
Cadenhead, Rogers
Calacanis, Jason
Cederholm, Dan
Champ, Heather
Chung, Jen
Coates, Tom
Coen, Jessica
Congdon, Amanda
Copeland, Henry
Cox, Ana Marie
>Cuban,
Mark
Curry, Adam
Curtis, Drew
Dash, Anil
>Davidson,
Mike
DeFillippo, Jason
>Denton,
Nick
DePlume, Nick
Derakhshan, Hossein
Dobkin, Jake
>Doctorow,
Cory
Douglas, Nick
>Drudge,
Matt
Dvorak, John
>d’Addario,
John
Fake, Caterina
Fitzgerald, Brad
>Frauenfelder,
Mark
Gaiman, Neil
Gillmor, Dan
Gladwell, Malcolm
Glaser, Mark
Godin, Seth
Grambo, Uncle
Granieri, Giuseppe
Haber, Matt
>Hall,
Steve
Hammersley, Ben
Haughey, Matt
Hewitt, Hugh
Hinderaker, John
Hourihan, Meg
Huffington, Arianna
Israel, Shel
Ito, Joi
>Jardin,
Xeni
Jarvis, Jeff
Johnson, Joel
Johnson, Scott
Kaus, Mickey
Klein, Stephanie
Klein, Zach
Kottke, Jason
Krucoff, Andrew
>Lapatine,
Scott
Lasica, J.D.
>Lat,
David
Lavandeira, Mario (P. Hilton)
>Layne,
Ken
Le Meur, Loic
>Leitch,
Will
>Leonsis,
Ted
Lessig, Lawrence
Levitt, Steven D.
>Lisanti,
Mark
Lutz, Bob
MacLeod, Hugh
Malda, Rob
>Malik,
Om
Malkin, Michelle
Marshall, Josh
McCullagh, Declan
>Meskill,
Judith
Mirengoff, Paul
>Moulitsas,
Markos
Mullenweg, Matthew
Newmark, Craig
>Ochman,
B.L.
Oxfeld, Jesse
>Pareene,
Alex
Pell, Dave
Peoples, Glenn
Peretti, Jonah
>Pescovitz,
David
Pierce, Tony
Pirillo, Chris
Powazek, Derek
>Reynolds,
Glenn
Robinson, D. Keith
>Rojas,
Peter
Romenesko, Jim
Rose, Kevin
Rosen, Jay
Ross, Blake
>Rubel,
Steve
>Rubin,
Josh
Rundle, Mike
Schachter, Joshua
Scoble, Robert
Scrivens, Paul
Searls, Doc
Shirky, Clay
Sicha, Choire
Sifry, David
Simmons, Bill
Simon, Roger L.
Sites, Kevin
Sorgatz, Rex
Spiers, Elizabeth
Steele, Lockhart
Stone, Biz
Sullivan, Andrew
>Sullivan,
Danny
Swanson, Heidi
>Tillinghast,
Tig
Torrez, Andre
>Torrone,
Phillip
Totten, Michael
>Trapani,
Gina
Trott, Mena
Van Veen, Ricky
>Vanegas,
Trent
Veen, Jeffrey
Vinh, Khoi
Wang, Karl
Warren, Frank
Wheaton, Wil
>White,
Charlie
Williams, Evan
Wilson, Fred
Wilson, Nick
Winer, Dave
Wolcott, James
Yglesias, Matthew
Zawodny, Jeremy
Zeldman, Jeffrey
was Mark Pilgrim ever an A-lister?
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/10/18/exit
“jumping ship from the blogosphere” ? Talk about mixed metaphors! It’s normal for folks to move on in life, with or without blogging. Look at Ana Marie Cox, former Wonkette. She seems to be writing books now. But, as opposed to celebrity death, departure from the blogosphere is probably unlikely to make the news … er, mainstream news, at least.