- Michael M.: Too much going on. Life in flux, etc..
- Sunshine: Wow, I was soooo happy to see a new post in my rss reader. I was hopping this is already the comeback! :(...
- gandalf: Did you only get caffeine through Dr.p or did you drink coffee as well? I’m interested, since...
- neeka: nine kilos… wow… :) happy holidays to you, michael, and to all your loved ones! veronica
- m: It was a bargain. No strings attached.
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Maribor, Slovenia.
Portoroz, Slovenia.
• AlienMelon
• Burger.si
• Heck
• Izklop
• si.blogs
• Sloblogi
• Blogorola
• Natalija Verboten
Click to visit Vidmar’s glorious list of all Slovenian blogs.
Vidmar has the most comprehensive list of all Slovenian blogs I have seen to date. If we count his blog there are 12 Slovenian blogs. That makes one blog for every 165.000 people living in Slovenia. That’s not so bad, but I know we can do better 
– Andrej Budja, April 18, 2004 [cache]
We can, Budja, and we did. It’s been more than a year since you wrote that and now the count is up to 125. That means there are ten times more Slovenian blogs than this time last year. And as anyone subscribed to this feed knows, we’re getting bigger, faster and naked-er than ever before. Bloggers now account for a full 0.00625% of the population — effectively zero. But! If just another 19.875 people start blogging in this country, and no one quits, we’ll break the 1% barrier! It may sound unlikely, but the U.S. already has 8 million bloggers, which is about 2.66% of the total population. Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that nobody knows what the hell a blog is — either in the U.S. or here. According to a recent Pew report [pdf] 62% of internet users don’t know what "blogging" means. And those are people who actually go online.
Although Slovenia’s bloggers are increasing in number, there have also been a lot of casualties in the past year, including some prominent ones: Slovenia Bulletin, Drepank, even Budja himself. All of them are currently izbrisani. ("the erased") Lord knows how much longer I can hold on. As Simon’s Law tells us: Everything put together sooner or later falls apart. (And the corollary: There’s nothing to it, nothing to it…)
Which brings me to this: This is my 400th post. Although that’s less than Domen does in a week, it still feels like a lot. It certainly feels like I’ve been through a lot. And for the most part, it’s been a pleasurable experience. It’s great watching a small community grow from 0 percent to slightly more than 0 percent, and it’s nice to be a part of it. Obviously there’s still plenty of room left to grow.
One thing that would be nice to see grow is the Slovenia group on Flickr. It’s tiny right now: just 3 members and 8 photos. For comparison: Croatia has 61 members and almost 600 photos. If you have some pictures of Slovenia, are a Slovene, or know someone who knows a Slovene, consider joining. It would be fantabulicious to see you there.
In the meantime, I’m going to just keep on keepin’ on.
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dunno…there are hundreds of photo community sites out there from photo.net to deviantart and trekearth with plenty of images from slovenia. Why Flickr? I don’t get it…anyway, don’t give up on blogingoh btw, any chance of a "photoblog pass" for the concert on friday? ; )
At one point I set up a planet for Slovenian blogs but I don’t think it got cought up. Is there interest for it now, maybe?
Jernej: No particular reason. Flickr just seems to have become the default photo place for bloggers. I’ve also noticed that quite a few Slovenian bloggers (or slobs, for short) already have Flickr accounts. As for the photoblog pass: if you would have told me earlier I might have been able to arrange something. Either way, come say hello if you’ll be there Friday!Gandalfar: One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is a collaborative Slovenian blog to get us all together somehow. Perhaps built in the style of a place like Metafilter. And in Slovene, of course. I’m not sure if that’s the kind of thing you were thinking about. I do think there are enough slobs now to try something like that. Since I’m technologically handicapped, I’ve been talking to Mr. Vidmar about it. If anyone has some ideas about that or wants to get more involved, send me an e-mail: michael123.manske@gmail.com (Remove the numbers!)
I didn’t know there’s a Slovenia group on Flicker.
Now we are allready 5. 
definitely, I’ll be the one with the camera ; )And I’m all for a collaborative blog. Did you have something like ohmynews in mind?
I’m not familiar with ohmynews.. Is it this?What
I think would be nice would be to have a place where all Slovenian
bloggers can discuss what’s on their minds – like tech things or
other blogging issues. A place to exchange ideas and experiences. Like
a forum, except hopefully not a forum, since I don’t like forums…
Make that nine in the Flickr group. And counting…
OhmyNews is a perfect example of participatory journalism. I believe they have a few profesional journalists on staff, everything else is contributed by just about anyone about anything. I believe it became the biggest and most influental media in Korea. Perhaps it’s not quite what you imagined though. How about http://blogs.sun.com/ or http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/showall/newentries/ both are basically just a collective feed from each individual blog. Everything shows up in one feed as opposed to hundreds. You can of course subscribe to individual feeds if you want.Siblogs engine is already collecting feeds to see if there’s anything new. It shouldn’t be a big problem to forward them into one common feed. or perhaps http://del.icio.us/ ?
See planet.rozica.com for example, any interest in setting this up properly?
A little while ago I was tinkering with an idea of starting a website and came upon this gem. It’s free software that easily allows multiple authors and such and it has even been tranlated into Slovenian.
I do like aggregators, but I was thinking of something more
independent and more meta. A blog to talk about blogging, perhaps.
Geeklog might be the right idea. Oh, and 11 people in the Flickr group — Huzzah!
Well, if anything comes out of this idea (blog about blogging) I’ve got something to get you started. An essay (in english) I wrote about RSS/blogging and the effect on newspapers. Not too theoretical either