I’m a fairly new blogger, but already in the past 7 months, I’ve seen PF bloggers come and go.
I’d like to post up some bloggers I really wish would come back. Maybe they are still reading? I enjoyed their posts, and maybe some of you will to. If you have some time, browse through their archives. This is not an all inclusive list, because there are some blogs I just don’t remember, but I did enjoy at one time or another. I’m getting older…the brain cells just aren’t as fresh as they were a few years ago.
The Almighty Dollar: She has written some great posts…I particularly like this one about her outrage on cars…or this one about keeping secrets about money…and this one about pressing your luck.
Jack’s Cash: This blog really didn’t have that much content per se, but the concept was great! I love following the networth growth of a little one. What better way to learn about managing finances of a kid then to watch their net worth. I can only imagine what it’d be like when Jack is old enough to search the Internet and find his own blog that his parents created for him. That’d be neat.
Neo’s Nest Egg: This guy was one of the earlier PF Bloggers. His blogspot address looks like it’s been taken over by a new person. So I won’t link it up. But he had a Doberman about the same age as Brownie. He even put up a chart with the Net Worths of a ton of PF Bloggers. Very cool.
Kirby on Finance: Okay, I’ll admit, I wasn’t a regular reader on this guys blog until close to when he stopped posting, but he was, in my eyes, another one of the “big guys” of PF Blogging. A student in law school who just finished his first year. He had some great posts, like the Monster.com Job Force? and Creating Teachable Investing Moments.
Young Professionals Finance Blog: A collaboration between 3 writters, this was a great blog as well. They had a Frugal Living Guide that went all the way up to part FIFTEEN! Gotta given them credit for that.
Financial Train Wreck: He was also a smoker who was trying to quit. It was nice having a fellow blogger going through the same trials as I was. His wife, Mrs. Train Wreck, was also trying to quit. His site no longer exists. For whatever reason, he closed down his site and said goodbye to all his readers.
Dollarz and Sense: Started right about the same time as me and a soldier. I looked forward to hearing about his journey as a soldier and, of course the financial side of it. A pretty unique journey…
The Wandering Monk: Catchy name. I wonder where he’s wandered to…
The Useless Tree: I don’t know what’s going on with Mike, but his last entry went like this:
A lot of issues have come up in my life involving my job and career development that have made keeping this blog a low priority. It’s really a shame because I got to (sort of) know and build relationships with a lot of other bloggers like frank, dawn and mapgirl. I never earned my * from madame X or got to submit to any carnivals.
He does leave a link to his current blog…but it’s locked to “friends only.” The reason? Not clear…
Clutter2Cash: Now this I don’t understand…a 191 readers subscribed to your RSS, and not posting every so often? You know the more I blog, the more I sit back and think…when in life do you have an opportunity to write to an almost limitless audience, granted they have to find you, but still…I’m grateful for the few readers on my blog…I’m not sure if I could leave almost 200 subscribers hanging, at least without some sort of thank you or goodbye note. Seems odd…
The links I posted up above are not their best posts…I just had to link up a few, but I know they’ve had much more good ones than just those…It’s been awhile, so I don’t remember which posts caught my attention, but browse through their archives…convince them to come back!
It’s quite sad to see bloggers go, but then look at the sheer explosion in the numbers…587 blogs tracked at pfblogs.org alone! It’s getting pretty hard to keep track of it all… Oh well, there you have it…in just a few months the entire landscape of PF Blogging has changed…what does the future hold?
Fascinating post. I used to read some of those blogs with interest, too. Interesting, though, that once they disappeared from landscape, they also disappeared from my memory.
Thanks for the post.
I still get traffics from Clutter2Cash occasionally. Unfortunately, speed of change on internet is very fast, both up and down. Once you stop posting, people stop coming to your site. And you will just become another piece of history.
Even when I don’t post for 1 day, the traffics on the day will be lower for sure. A fickle, busy, and memoryless audience indeed.
It’s easy to see how this happens. Even though i check out PF blogs almost every day, I sometimes forget that I have one, too!
It truly is a challenge to keep posting every single day. I miss a lot of these sites, but the one that I miss the most is Kirby on Finance.
MollysBrother, You know, if I didn’t have some of these blogs in my blogroll, I probably would have forgotten too. But the ones I listed above, I occassionally just click on just to see…maybe they’re back…
Frugal, That’s just the nature of the business I guess…If there’s nothing new to read, why come by?
S/100/30, Hehe…you forget about your own blog?
King of Debt, He had some really good posts…
Thanks for the kind words! I took a summer internship in DC and I figured I had to put blogging on the backburner while I did. Needless to say, all of that is over and I’ve been meaning to get back to blogging but hadn’t. I think this post is going to get me to do it!
[...] In what has seemed to be something of a television show that gets cancelled, only to return a few years later (ala Family Guy), it seems that Kirby on Finance may return with regularly scheduled blog postings. I find this exciting as it was really Kirby’s blog that started the whole idea in our heads that, “hey…maybe we could offer up something of value, or at least conjure up some laughs over our idiotic financial decisions”. Here’s hoping that he does start to spew some more great financial wisdom for all of us. Technorati Tags: Family Guy, Kirby, Financial Decisions [...]
Kirby, Right on! Looks like you have at least 2 bloggers looking forward to your return!