The northlondonhippy

It seems I’m part of the last bas­tion of a dying breed.

Accord­ing to my favourite news­pa­per, The Guardian, the “blog phe­nom­e­non” reached its peak last Octo­ber and has started to decline. Many have become what are now known as “ghost blogs”; aban­doned and left to lan­guish untouched on the inter­net for who knows how long. The full arti­cle can be found RIGHT HERE.

At the peak of blog­ging, way back in those heady, crazy, hazy days of Octo­ber last year, they say there were around 200 mil­lion web­sites like mine. No won­der I’m the “biggest inter­net celebrity you’ve never heard of!” – there’s a ton of competition.

The fact that other blogs are dis­ap­pear­ing can only be good news for a cer­tain north Lon­don based hippy that likes to smoke dope. Yes, me! Per­haps as all the oth­ers dis­ap­pear, eager con­sumers of blogs will seek me out for all their blog­ging needs.

Trust me, I could be your sole provider!

It was my third anniver­sary of blog­ging last week and I took a deci­sion not to mark it in my usual nos­tal­gic style. I’m only men­tion­ing it now to make a sim­ple point, which is this: I’m still blogging.

I won’t deny that my blog has changed and evolved over time and it’s far more of a place for me to wax lyri­cal on whatever’s on my mind that day, than a diary of what I had for lunch.

I think these days, what I do is closer to per­sonal essays or dare I say, a colum­nist (and one avail­able for hire!) pro­vid­ing con­sid­ered opin­ions on a wide vari­ety of subjects.

I still aim to inform and enter­tain and I try to be as acces­si­ble as pos­si­ble to the widest audi­ence. And I would like it to be wider.

I actu­ally do alright in terms of vis­i­tors and for the most part, my num­bers have steadily climbed since I started and increased rather dra­mat­i­cally as of late. As blogs go and I mean those writ­ten by nobod­ies such as myself, I think I do pretty damn good.

Not as well as you guys though, because you, my beloved hip­py­fans were clever enough to make it to this page, slic­ing through the dross and detri­tus that per­vades the inter­net like a litter-strewn street.

I pre­fer to think of my blog as under­ground, rather than obscure, so well done you for hook­ing up with the hippy. That puts you right at the heart of the van­guard of the inter­net elite! It’s just like hav­ing the door­man at an exclu­sive club, invite you inside ahead of the queue and then ush­er­ing you straight to the VIP sec­tion, where Sarah Hard­ing from Girls Aloud is on her third bot­tle of Dom and she’s about to get her tits out!

Maybe not, but it’s still superneatocool.

I’m glad you all dig the hippy, because this hippy really digs all of you!

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