I’ve experienced this myself, and I always feel disappointment when I read another blogger say something like “I’m done, I’ve said all there is to say and I’m retiring my blog.” Maybe you’ve felt either or both sides of this, too. So I just saw a wonderful revision of a poem speaking to this issue, on the LATimes blog (and click to read the post, because it’s actually about the closing of a great blog):

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Internet Fog
by Dylan Thomas
remixed by Carolyn Kellogg

Do not go gentle into that internet fog,
Writing should burn and rage complete
Rage, rage against the dying of the blog.

Unwise men think sentences do bog,
But what can be said in just a Tweet?
Do not go gentle into that internet fog.

Good men at laptops watch agog,
Their words sucked into a Facebook data sheet
Rage, rage against the dying of the blog.

A wild man who drinks the German grog
Leaves updates, a 4G phone — he’s indiscreet!
Do not go gentle into that internet fog.

Grave men crave followers and flog
And flog for more with desperate heat
Rage, rage against the dying of blog.

And you, dear poets, know writing is no slog
The ebb and flow of words is sweet
Do not go gentle into that internet fog,
Rage, rage against the dying of the blog.

– Carolyn Kellogg