Go Blogs crisis
Yesterday I was reading the usual feeds on my google reader till I realised that there were only 5 major writers... out of a total list over 30 sources. Then, I decided to take a look at the Go Blogs list on Sensei's Library, just to realise that the Active/Inactive list of bloggers was quite outdated.
The result: (in pink the new inactive ones)
| [361 points = Go | http://www.361points.com/blog/] (by [Sorin Gherman]) | |
| [Alejo's Tenuki | http://www.alejostenuki.com/blog/] (9k KGS, partially a videoblog)[RSS Feed|http://alejostenuki.com/blog/feeds/index.rss2] | |
| - [Ava's Go Journey | http://go-journey.blogspot.com] (14k KGS, starts out at 18k) [RSS Feel|http://go-journey.blogspot.com/atom.xml] | |
| [Baduk und Sprache | http://baduk.at]: [maruseru]'s blog, in german | |
| [ChiyoDad Learns Go | http://chiyodad.blogspot.com] (8k KGS, blog starts at unranked) [RSS Feed|http://chiyodad.blogspot.com/atom.xml] | |
| [Contemplations on Go | http://grandyan.blogspot.com/] ([GrandYan]'s blog, starts at 1d) |
| [FlameBlade's: Board Mirroring the Soul | http://www.flamingstones.blogspot.com] (dan level) | |||
| [frankiii's blog | http://frankiii.blogspot.com/] (18k, blog starts at 21k) [RSS Feed|http://frankiii.blogspot.com/atom.xml] | |||
| [Go Around | http://5around.blogspot.com/] (Photos from Italian and some European Tournaments, in Italian) | |||
| - [Go4Go.net Go News | http://www.go4go.net/v2/modules/news/] [RSS Feed | http://www.go4go.net/v2/backend.php] | |||
| [Go Game In Russia | http://go.weiqi.ru/] [RSS Feed|http://go.weiqi.ru/rss] | |||
| - [A Go Player | http://goplayer.blogspot.com/] (15k, blog starts at 24k) | |||
| [Igo Report|http://igoreport.blogspot.com/] (by Nacho Cernuda, 4d in Spanish) | |||
| [Jon Boley|http://myspace.com/spazzy_j] (6d, blogging from Seoul, Korea) | |||
| [Kami no Itte|http://kaminoitte.com/blog/] (blog by [Codexus]) [RSS Feed | http://kaminoitte.com/dotclear/rss.php] | |||
| - [Kikashi | http://kikashi.blogspot.com] (Learning Experiments in the Game of Go) | |||
| [Kouseis World | http://kouseisworld.blogspot.com] (1k, German Blog about Go) | |||
| - [Malweth's Go Blog | http://www.tsumego.net/blog] (9k, blog starts at 18k) | |||
| [Maths and Weiqi...with a British Accent | http://mathsandweiqi.blogspot.com] | |||
| - [Mr Ooijer Blogs | http://blogger.xs4all.nl/rongen17/] Jan van Rongens Blog [RSS Feed|http://blogger.xs4all.nl/rongen17/Rss.aspx] | |||
| [Nachtrabe's Baduk Blog|http://nachtsbaduk.blogspot.com/] (8k, [nachtrabe's|nachtrabe] baduk blog, formerly on SL) | |||
| [NannyOgg's Shodan Challenge Blog | http://shodan-challenge.blogspot.com/] [RSS Feed|http://shodan-challenge.blogspot.com/atom.xml] | |||
| [Nexik Baduk School| http://www.baduk.nexik.net/] (Dan level) | |||
| - [rayen's Go blog during his fulltime study in Go| http://www.progamed.com] (dan level) | |||
| [Polish Go| http://polishgo.blogspot.com/] (Dan level) | |||
| - [A River of Stones | http://bodhiwater.blogspot.com/] [RSS Feed | http://feeds.feedburner.com/ARiverOfStones] | |||
| - [Rob's Go Blog | http://waykay.blogspot.com] [RSS Feed|http://waykay.blogspot.com/atom.xml] [RobFerguson]'s Go Blog | |||
| - [The Shodan Year | http://the-shodan.blogspot.com/] Ash's improvement log during the BGS's Shodan Challenge program. | |||
| [Think, strive, good luck | http://think2improve.blogspot.com/] Jayme Fosa | |||
| [A Shugyosha's Journey |http://www.bodhiwater.blogspot.com/] (29k, blog starts at 30k) [RSS Feed|http://bodhiwater.blogspot.com/atom.xml] | |||
| - [Snakeeater on Go | http://snakeeatergo.blogspot.com/] (4k) | |||
| - [Studying Weiqi in China | http://www.gostudent.blogspot.com/] | |||
| [study at Myongji University in Korea | http://www.jens.baduk4u.de] Jens Henker 4d, in german and english | |||
| [TheKro's Nest | http://www.cs.sun.ac.za/~skroon/personal/blog/] [Steve]'s blog (1k) | |||
| - [toastcrumb's Go Blog|http://shodansummer.blogspot.com/] (12k) | |||
| - [Tsumego.net - The game of Go (Weiqi) | http://www.tsumego.net/blog/index.php] [RSS Feed | http://www.malweth.net/nucleus/atom.php?blogid=2] | |||
| [Wolvie's Go Blog|http://wolviego.blogdrive.com/] (30k) | |||
| [World news about game of Go|http://go-news.blogspot.com/] | |||
| - [xed_over|http://www.xanga.com/go_player] (9 kyu, began blog at 12 kyu) | |||
| [IgoBlog|http://www.igochile.cl/blog/] News in Spanish | |||
| * [ziggy's go club] | |||
All in all, 15 blogs had to be removed from the Active Blogs list due to the lack of activity during the last 6 months or the impossibility to reach their addresses. Some of them already announced their desire to stop blogging, but others were just left to their own luck by their owners.
Even there is still a nice list of active blogs, if you check your feeds reader, you'll realise that there are only a few of them which are regularly posting on their blogs. In fact, most of the feeds you received last month came from only 5 authors. Now I hope you get what I mean by Go Blogs Crisis.
Btw, recently I created a blog about go.
can we swap link?
I mean could you please add my blog to your links and I will put yours?