noticed today that nashville is talking is ceasing to exist as the blog portal for the nashville blogging community.
truth be told, it probably ceased to be the main portal some years ago when brittney left and the whole chaos ensued at nit & music city bloggers was birthed for a short while.
i enjoyed that community of folks at that point, some of the people i'm still in conversations with today. {in fact, have to thank newscoma for tipping me off to this.} back then you looked for the 'fresh rolled blogs' and knew when your site got linked because hits & comments would take off (well, for someone small time like myself). i remember going to the first barcamp cause all my blogger friends were planning on going, which was the first time i met many folks.. remember sitting next to rob robinson & recognizing him immediately because his hat & outfit was exactly like his thumbnail pic on his blog (yes i teased him about that one). met kate o in line with john carney (john whom i've known for years) we were all first in line (well, kate was actually first).
fast forwarding: that medium, that town square, we all met & built our friendships and community on ceases to exist. since those days of nit i can safely say that twitter, facebook, or anything since has garnered the loyalty & passions that the nashville is talking site did for us some four or five years ago. (gosh, has it really been that long?).
i would love some new place find some of that community. but alas, not all good things are forever & nashville is talking served a great place in my cyber musings life. so much so that it impeded into my real life, which i was more than okay with (it just took some explaining to the wife). so long my friend, nashville is talking. (i want to say some 'long tail' ulogy comment, but its just not quite there, so assume i said something clever & smile)
FYI I do not have the hat on at the moment. 😉 I’ve been thinking about this this week, too, Gavin. It’s very sad to see NiT officially go away, though I think it really started to die when Mike Sechrist and Brittney Gilbert departed.
Nothing I’ve noticed yet on the local social media scene has filled the void left by NiT in its prime. That was a great hub of connectivity for Nashville bloggers and tech folks.
Rob
FYI I do not have the hat on at the moment. 😉 I’ve been thinking about this this week, too, Gavin. It’s very sad to see NiT officially go away, though I think it really started to die when Mike Sechrist and Brittney Gilbert departed.
Nothing I’ve noticed yet on the local social media scene has filled the void left by NiT in its prime. That was a great hub of connectivity for Nashville bloggers and tech folks.
Rob
i would hope that something soon might come across the digital interwebs to build up a new community. that way we can create some new friendships, much as many of us did, with new folks to the area or new voices.
i would hope that something soon might come across the digital interwebs to build up a new community. that way we can create some new friendships, much as many of us did, with new folks to the area or new voices.
It was an interesting and dark summer when I took over posting at NiT when Brittany left. It takes a lot of time and energy to man a blog hub and lead a blog community. It was an interesting experiment. Not for those who like to spend a lot of time in a chair.
It was an interesting and dark summer when I took over posting at NiT when Brittany left. It takes a lot of time and energy to man a blog hub and lead a blog community. It was an interesting experiment. Not for those who like to spend a lot of time in a chair.