Beggars All ist tot

November 9, 2006 · Filed Under blogging

Beggars All — long a bastion of quality in the Lutheran blogosphere — is dead & gone.

Read this thread at LutherQuest for some details.

They’ve struggled with the factors that drove them to shut things down for good before (as I recall the “sabbatical” from a year or so ago…), so this isn’t completely surprising to me.

It does, however, leave me conflicted. And, I must be honest, it angers me. I think they’ve copped out a bit. I think the argument that blogging and/or the internet is a “black hole” is disingenuous at worst and wrong-headed at best. Neither do I think that the vocation-based argument is all that valid.

I just wanted to get this entry out, as both a statement of thanks for the good that Beggars All did in the blogosphere, and as an expression of my immediate/raw reaction to its demise.

It’s a damn shame.

It’s possible that I’ll more fully develop my thoughts, particularly if there are any comments that warrant such efforts. But it’s also possible that I won’t.

‘Cause, after all, I’m just a softie who blogs about inconsequential stuff like realitytv & other stuff that merely interests me…

Feh.

-ghp

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Tags: blogging, lutheran, sadness