Closing Its Doors in 12 Days

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Christian Long[Edit][Delete]: think:lab Closing Its Doors in 12 Days, think:lab [Edit][Delete] February 17, 2006
Christian Long has decided to shut down his blog. "when a 'successful' blog simply becomes better and better at 'Hey, look at my links!', and doesn't fulfill its genetic promise to be a collectively-owned conversation that ebbs and flows like a young river growing larger and larger as its meander pulls in the river bank little by little until its a wiser and more powerful river following its destined call towards the larger seas... then something precious is getting lost." That's an awful lot to ask of a blog, or of anything, for that matter. More...