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  • This thing about Blogorrah

    July 26, 2007 @ 8:42 am | by Jim Carroll

    What amazes me about the ongoing interest in the whereabouts of Blogorrah is the failure by anyone to actively try to replace it. Yes, Blogorrah is fantastic, but it’s far from unique. I mean, they shamelessly ripped their stylebook from Gawker. Maybe Blogorrah’s absence is caused by problems in getting the new Gawker fonts?

    But the fascination does provoke a couple of questions. Like…

    Are Irish bloggers really so hard up for chuckle material that they need John, Derek and assorted folk to come up with the funnies every day?

    Do Irish bloggers ever think they could actually do something similar or - this one is kind of radical, I know - better by themselves? Would they even think of having a go? There are some very talented bloggers out there who could easily do the same job, but who lack the ambition and drive (and probably balls) to have a go.

    Are Irish bloggers so hard up for things to write about that they need the Blogorrahistas to do the spade-work for them? I mean, I thought that was just a charge leveled at the mainsteam media?

    What the hell did Irish bloggers write about before Blogorrah?

    Does this prove that there is a blogging version of the silly season?

    Just asking, like.

    • 14 Comments »

    1.
    July 26, 2007
    10:42 am

    I miss Blogorrah, but not as much as I miss the good old days of Danger Here (now non-updated since Feb 23).

    Comment by aidan
    2.
    July 26, 2007
    11:01 am

    While we’re at it - where the hell is Correspondent?

    All this guff about politicians giving up blogging after the election and it’s the good bloggers who drop like flies.

    Shocking.

    Comment by Markham
    3.
    July 26, 2007
    11:12 am

    I was thinking the same thing Jim. I think people are just basically waiting for Blogorrah to return with no one willing to fill the vaccuum while it has been ‘on a break’.

    Blogorrah was really the only goss/sleb orientated Irish blog, so the fact that it hasn’t been replaced isn’t that unusual.

    Comment by UnaRocks
    4.
    July 26, 2007
    12:19 pm

    I never really got/get the whole blogorrah thing…

    Comment by Ronan
    5.
    July 26, 2007
    12:19 pm

    sorry I know that’s a bit like standing up at mass and saying “jesus, was he really so great?”

    Comment by Ronan
    6.
    July 26, 2007
    12:56 pm

    Sure Jim, you’re not at all busy, off with you. :)

    Comment by Damien Mulley
    7.
    July 26, 2007
    4:30 pm

    I’ll tell u what Damien, I reckon u and I could definitely do a nu Blogorrah inbetween our other various pursuits!

    but that, i suppose, is what I am getting at - the people/bloggers who have the drive and madness to do a similar site are already up to their eyes, while everyone else waits around for someone else to do it. Look at Damien and the Irish Blog Awards for instance. It seems most people prefer to moan about “where is blogorrah?” rather than go “hey, no blogorrah, lets fill the gap”

    Comment by Jim Carroll
    8.
    July 26, 2007
    5:39 pm

    new blog you say?

    http://jacksgraff.blogspot.com/

    Comment by UnaRocks
    9.
    July 26, 2007
    10:01 pm

    If I wasn’t working on about 4 other blog projects, I’d give it a bash, all I’d need are a source of lovely girl pics and to have a clue about who these folks are. Not the best on celebs.

    I do definitely think there is a vacuum now and there is a market opportunity for anyone that wants to step in. Not much of a first push is needed.

    Comment by Damien Mulley
    10.
    July 27, 2007
    11:00 am

    but who really wants to be the person who makes a version of someone else’s blog to fill that hole? I’m sure in time somebody will do something similar but totally different

    Comment by Ronan
    11.
    July 31, 2007
    5:57 pm

    Blogorrah was consistently funny and the fact it was updated every hour or so made it extremely…it will be impossible to replicate it was so good,,,,but did it go anyway? going out on top, they say they are coming back but it’s so long now people will forget about it…

    Comment by Quint
    12.
    August 14, 2007
    7:21 pm

    Aren’t they too busy fighting
    bankruptcy? They won’t be back. “Revamp” my eye! I think they are big fat liars! They should have come clean about the failed magazine. Someone could easily replace them though.

    Comment by laura
    13.
    August 16, 2007
    3:07 pm

    Good riddance to that horrible, sexist, petty, childish site. It seemed to exist mainly as a platform for the anonymous settling of old scores. I hope the worms enjoy chewing through its stinking carcass.

    Comment by Scary Mary
    14.
    September 12, 2007
    3:36 pm

    Ghey

    Comment by John Mullen

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