Dead blog - Blog P.I.

I chose to follow Blog P.I. Wait, following it is quite a strong word, considering its more than one year long post-draught. Still, let’s see what I could find out.

Blog P.I. is (was?) a fairly exciting blog about the uses of Internet in U.S. politics, with Web 2.0 in its main focus. The blog is mainly written by William Beutler, an Internet analyst, and as it is said on the ‘about’ page, he tries to base his posts on observation and reason instead of opinion.

The last couple of posts weren’t really commented, that might have been the reason for the stop. Also, Beutler has now a blog on Wikipedia, apparently still running. Actually, the last post of Blog P.I. (January 2011) is about his new blog’s TV appearance; one of the intentions with this post was probably to inform his former followers where they can read from him now.

By having a look at the posts before the above mentioned last one, we can probably sense the style of the blog. One post is about Austan Goolsbee, who has videos on YouTube about Obama’s economic policies and other possibilities. Goolsbee became successful immediately with his videos, and had a recent one uploaded not long before the post was written. The post contains two Goolsbee-videos, so the reader can see who is he/she reading about. The post before this is about Sean Parker and how he’s defended by whom, while the one before that is about social media.

I haven’t gone too many posts back, but the most recent post were written irregularly and with a long time passing between them. That’s definitely not the way to keep a blog successful. There are no problems with the design or the content in my opinion, but there wasn’t enough attention paid to the blog by the contributor(s)… And that’s how a blog can just fade away.