November 12, 2008

• Rip Van Xanga wakes up to find…The Xanga Group

  

  Xanga has always billed itself as “the blogging community” or “the weblog community.” The community seems to be getting a bit bigger even as I seem to read so many blogs complaining about the community getting smaller, going to the dogs, or other more colorful metaphors decrying the “death of Xanga”. Look around. More people than ever before seem to be getting more comments, stars, recommends, eprops (remember those?), and featured status in a number of places on a number of blogging communities within Xanga. First, we had revelife, momaroo, and datingish. Now there’s dollarish, healthkicker and lovelyish, among others I’m sure are being cooked up right now. (That was Lovely-ish, NOT lovely FISH, a blogging community for beautiful sea creatures, as I first thought.)

  Notice the graphics are all similar, owing to the fact that all these new “blogging communities” are part of the “Xanga Group.” Do you think this is the final offering? Not on your sweet revelife it isn’t. A flood of new communities are being cooked up as we speak. Some of the latest blogging communities in the offing:

  Altish: Different lifestyles. Different blogs.

  First there was going to be a blogging community for gays, but in the spirit of true tolerance, now all alternative lifestyles are being given the nod with “Altish”, a blogging community for those who practice a different kind of relationship with an alternative partner. Contributors are Mr. Swish, Ms. Dyke, Mr. Beastly, and  Mr/Ms.

   

  rantaroo: I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore

  So many rants seem to slice through otherwise intelligent and inspiring content on so many blogs. Now there’s a place for nothing but. Rant, rave, show your most intolerant, assholish, impertinent, loudmouthed self. On the rantaroo community, there are no “locks” or “protected posts” or blocking allowed. This is a free for all where the gloves are off and the vitriol flies unfettered. Join our contributors, Hateful, Gripy, Screamer, and Blowhard.

   

  Emo Graveyard

  The Emo kids are getting old and in the way. It’s time for a better place to congregate. Themes are all in basic black, and there’s a place to share photos and angsty poems, and chat with other overly emotionally unstable bloggers. If you’re emo, have ever been emo, or want to channel your inner emo kid, the Xanga group has a blogging community for you.

   

  Grannyblogs: A place for cats, quilts, gardens, grandkids, and recipes

  First were the “Featured Grownups”. Now if you’re an empty nester of a certain age you will delight in the new Xanga blogging group community called “Grannyblogs”. Join Granny Estelle, Granny Hope, Grannykins, and the inimitable Granny Goose to share your photos of the grandkids. Use our special “recipe cards” instead of pulses and enjoy the fact that we seldom update, so your home away from home is never in an uproar, and is always the way you left it.

   

  xangalife: I don’t have a life. I have a xangalife

  To be brutally honest with ourselves, if we aim for xangalebrity or have the time to update more than once a day, then we probably live most of our life on Xanga. What better place to launch a new blogging community for those whose life is their xanga, and verse visa.

  Xangalife’s motto is “I don’t have a life. I have a xangalife.” I could be spending more time with World of Warcraft or the latest edition of Guitar Hero. I could be doing something even more constructive. But I’m not. I’m on Xanga. It’s a blogging community which thinks it’s myspace, twitter, digg, and youtube. Why not just blog on Xanga, you might ask. Well, xanga needs more blogging communities, and xangalife is just the latest.

   

   The Theologian’s Blogging Community

  Let’s face it. He’s the most popular blogger on Xanga. Isn’t time he got his own blogging community? It would pretty much be the same site, but now it will have it’s own “brand name”. Contributors are Dan the Theologian and everyone who visits and comments on his posts.

   

   

   Rhyme-aroo: for poet’s who know it

  (EDIT: I had to post another one.) From the dawn of the internet, there have been millions of internet poets lambasting us with various “poems of the day”, “hour”, “month”, and “year”. On Rhyme-aroo, poet’s who know it can share a well strophed line or two.

  The main entry screen is defaulted to iambic pentameter. Rhyming dictionaries join spell check and thesaurus to give the constant poet the tools he or she needs at their fingertips to help them transform into the next Carl Sandburg or Emily Dickenson. Contributors include Lord Byron, Charles Bukowski, and Sylvia Plath.

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  Well, I could go on. But I won’t. (Edit, sorry I did)  Xanga seems to be announcing a lot of new blogging communities, don’t they? I hope they don’t shut down the one which started it all! If you would like to see even more new xanga group blogging communities, then head on over to THIS SITE. I found it when I googled “xanga groups.” I’m sure there’s more. If you know of any new Xanga Group blogging sites I may have missed, let me know in comments which ones you’ve seen (dreamed about, wished for). Just think of a trend, type, or style, add an “ish” or a “roo” and you’ve got a new Xanga Group Blogging Community.

  Until next time, searching the xangashpere for more interesting xanga group communities, this is your humble correspondent, Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool

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