Or maybe it’s just tiring. Both “tired” and “tiring” are adjectives, and while one means in need of rest, the other, according to my Encarta dictionary, “means causing fatigue, usually because requiring great physical or mental exertion.” And that brings us nicely to blogging; more specifically EU blogging.
You see, the Bertelsmann Foundation (German: Bertelsmann Stiftung) has spent some €728 million on nonprofit projects since is inception in 1977. The total budget alone for the 2007 fiscal year was €62 million. (Ed. “Excuse me, but what has this post got to do with EU blogging?”) Well, the thing is that the foundation’s EU blog, and it has one, called appropriately, Bertelsmann Stiftung EU Blog, was last updated on 3 July 2007!
One could read too much into this, of course, but if an annual budget of €62 million cannot keep an EU blog on the information highway, what hope is there for less well-endowed vehicles? Or could it be that the topic itself proved so dreary that not even all the Stiftung’s millions could keep the thing on the road? And, you will have noted, no doubt, that all the posts were graced with “0 Kommentare”. So, is it “tired” or “tiring”?
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Funding isn’t really relevant - it’s just a fundamentally boring subject matter. FWIW I applaud a charitable foundation for directing its efforts to more useful pursuits than euroblogging.
Can you name a genuinely popular and intrinsically interesting blog sponsored by a corporation? Maybe there’s one at Google or Microsoft that is hugely useful in a technical field, but overall blogging does not improve significantly with funding.
Also making a corporate or organisational blog work well is not an easy task… It requires that organisation to be quite liberal and flexible in their approach and that’s not always easy.
As for blogging about the EU - there are some of us that have maintained blogs about the EU over the long term!
I’m sure you have, and I honestly envy the marvellous attention span and tenacity of the likes of Julian Frisch. I consider myself a europhile, but I think I’d have killed myself by now if I had to wade through all that stuff on a daily basis.