When I was writing yesterday’s post I got to thinking of some long gone blogs and there are beaucoup. Some I really miss. Others I don’t and many I just don’t recall.
Of those in the first category, I fondly remember Jamie Grant’s Magic Friday. Tom Frank and his life adventures, The Magic Whack and a couple of others. Some blogs just quit one day, while others muddled along the reduced content and reduced quality, frequently with a resurrection post which never happened. Eventually gravity won (which it always does) and the blog sunk into the abyss.
This is a list from approximately 2006:
- Ace of Spades Magic
- Annabelle
- At The Card Table
- Bizarro
- Dancing Screws
- Diana Kimball
- Escamoteurettes.com
- Forces Unseen
- Gordon Meyer
- House of Mysteries
- I, Magician
- Japanjin
- Jeff Stone
- Jim Sisti
- Lazy Magic
- Magic Conversations
- Magic Friday
- Magic Whack
- Mark Raven
- Meir Yedid
- Michael Ammar
- Paul Daniels
- Poolside Reflections
- Quicker Than
- Richard Kaufman
- Richard Osterlind
- Scoundrels Magazine
- Shawn Farquhar
- The Clog
- Tom Frank
- Unexpected Wonders
- Wizard’s Ball
My favorite was Ye Olde Magick Blogge, which is no surprise to long time readers. This took me on a journey into the Internet Archive Wayback Machine – never any fun. It’s glacially slow, probably, in part, due to crawling nearly a trillion pages (over 860 billion web pages and 99 petabytes of data). Also, the interface was designed by the same person that gave us Microsoft’s Bob.
I did manage to capture a post from the Blogge, just for an example of the quality of content. (Warning – sometimes the link works, sometimes it doesn’t. I dunno.) This happens to be his review if It’s The Rules by Bob Sheets. He didn’t like it at all, an opinion which I don’t share. That’s really not the point, it’s the clarity of thought and writing that I wanted to show.
Enjoy the trip………
