Gallowglass

“We’re not sure yet whether we’ll continue posting to Gallowglass”

I have nothing against group blogs - I’m about to start one myself - but one thing about the is that they will almost inevitably be more impersonal, and have a less distict personality. You do lose something.

(Not Geniuses is a case in point; imho Robars old log was superior to the combined effort.)

Just my two cents.

That’s not to say I’m anything less than quite enthusiastic about Crooked Timber, because I am, I mean am not.

I’d probably still miss Gallowglass, though. But life is all about bittersweet change, in with the new, out with old, and all that. Or something like that.

Lovely name, Crooked Timber. As I am part of a group blog over at Demagogue, I feel some need to defend them a wee bit. Like anything with a group dynamic, it can be tricky, but I think they can have a more conversational atmosphere than individual blogs. At least there is that potential. Anyway, it sounds like a great combo and I look forward to reading you over there.

I just have to quote Edward Hgh’s reaction:

“Whether this attempt at creative fusion works, or whether it will be another Vivendi-Bertelssman I do not know. My own view is that blogging is an intensely personal activity - even a struggle to find identity - and that they may become victims of their own split personality. Or worse, they could become another example of the ‘tragedy of the commons’. Blogging is, I feel, a post-ideological activity, where the personal finds its head over the intellectual (and certainly over the dogmatic). My vision of blogging is inheretly pluralist. However, much as our intrepid friends would cling to the life raft (let’s hope the timber is at least sound) in a vain attempt to avoid the perilous alternative of swimming in the open sea, I do not abandon all hope.”

You gotta love him.

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