Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day

In the weekend section of the Financial Times, Trevor Butterworth reveals "the dismal fate of blogging". Boo hoo! Kleenex at hand? OK, here goes:

"... :it renders the word even more evanescent than journalism; yoked, as bloggers are, to the unending cycle of news and the need to post four or five times a day, five days a week, 50 weeks of the year, blogging is the closest literary culture has come to instant obsolescence. No Modern Library edition of the great polemicists of the blogosphere to yellow on the shelf; nothing but a virtual tomb for a billion posts — a choric song of the word-weary bloggers, forlorn mariners forever posting on the slumberless seas of news."

Without even a hint of irony, the FT has set up a blog to discuss the story. But just when it looks as if the last blogger left standing should hit the "Off" switch, along comes William Safire and he devotes his NYT lingo column to, that's right, the dismal thing. Looks like there's life in the old blog yet.