Russell Beattie on The Last Page

So Russell is hanging it up. This, too, is a natural part of life: people come, people go.

I seldom read Russell in the past year, and never really warmed to him. Not that that has anything to do with his turning off the light. The reasons to stop are as ideosyncratic and imponderable as the reasons to start. There are probably millions who quit every year. Maybe these guys, like Dave Winer, can’t really adapt to this new brave new blogosphere, “that has such people in it.”

Somehow I think there should be a website dedicated to those who have quit, though: a sort of memorial. We could put virtual wreaths on virtual graves, since it is a kind of death: the end of blogging. We could even have a virtual ceremony.