Chad is exiting the blogosphere.

Chad Dotson is taking a break from blogging, possibly for good. Seems to me all the reasonable Virginia political bloggers are disappearing. I expect will end up with a supermajority of people who don’t know how to disagree without being disagreeable. That won’t be fun.

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Waldo Jaquith (JAKE-with) is an open government technologist who lives near Char­lottes­­ville, VA, USA. more »

5 replies on “Chad is exiting the blogosphere.”

  1. Waldo,
    We still have Norm, Jim Bacon, Vivian Paige, Conaway Haskins, and others. I suspect some excellent dialogue will continue in the Commonwealth and more new faces with thoughtful ideas will emerge.

    Chad will be missed. Hopefully only for a little while.

  2. It is inevitable that blogging will change unfortunately. I also hate to see Chad go, but eventually, we all will. What we have to hope for now, as Jim said, is for more bloggers to emerge. Hopefully, another CC may appear someday.

    I can understand why he is leaving though. It can be hard to keep up with it at times. I have posted over 500 times, and that is considered to be a small blog! I could not even venture a guess at how much he has posted and how long he spent typing there when he could instead be with his family or doing his job. We are all fortunate that he would give us some of his time.

  3. Actually, this is just what inevitably happens to anyone who hangs around a rotating institution long enough.

    When we first showed up at summer camp, the older kids insisted that “all the really cool people who were here last year are gone now.” Then a couple of summers later, we became the older kids and when some of our friends stopped returning we’d be likely to say to the younger kids that “all of the really cool people are gone now.”

    You’d better believe that those younger kids said the same damn thing 3 years later after we were gone. Based on the apparant trend, Camp Horizons must be a place of abject suffering and interminable dorkiness right now. While 10 years before we arrived it must have been Fiddler’s Green. But that shit isn’t the truth. Because the people who were there 20 years ago had a good time and when you were there you had a good time (oh shit – wait a minute – that WAS 20 years ago!) and the kids there now are having a good time. The people change, the culture evolves but everything is actually fine.

    Thus is the Virginia political blogosphere as well.

  4. Thanks, Waldo. The Virginia political blogosphere certainly seems to have changed fairly quickly, no question. I’m not sure where we’re headed in that respect, but I’ll certainly be an interested observer.

    We rarely agree on politics, but (among many other things) I think we have always agreed that people can fight over politics in a civil manner. Keep trying to fight the good fight on that front.

    You know, The Virginia Way, and all that.

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