When A Blog Ends January 10th, 2007
LOVE are big fans of Life On The Pea Harvest, the blog of Colin Wright, agricultural manager at Bird’s Eye as he managed the annual harvest of Bird’s Eye peas. We’ve referred to it loads of times with clients, if they were wavering a bit about starting their own company blog. It was strangely addictive - part education, part soap opera - but it was blogging at its best. It felt honest and true - the real musings of a dedicated, passionate bunch of people. It even had typos and bad grammar - it was that good.
But then it stopped. It didn’t slowly wind down. It just - stopped. There we were sharing the musings of Colin during his Yorkshire Stroll and the problems that the wet weather was creating for potato lifting, then - nothing.
I wrote to ‘Colin’ and I got a prompt response back from ‘Martin’ at Tullo Marshall Warren informing me that because the pea harvest finished, the blog had stopped.
No law against that, but like Misery, if somethings gonna end - maybe
you need to manage us delicately out of pea-world and back into boring reality.
PS - What’s the blogworld etiquette for ending a blog? Any good stories of uproar and grief at the demise of a particular blog ?
Posted by Jonathan Rigby












