5524 The Disappearance of Tangobliss.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:57:27 -0800
From: m i l e s <tangobliss@gmail.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] The Disappearance of Tangobliss.com
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Hi,
In case you folks were wondering, or being thankful depending on your
point of view...
Yes Tangobliss.com has shut down.
It was time.
It was only meant to be up a short time to begin with.
It has served its purpose.
I never intended it to be a reporting tool on the state of the tango
community at large. Nor did I intend to become the tango reporter.
Nor did I want the positive or negative notoriety that it has afforded
me.
My singular goal in having TangoBliss.com up was to get what was in my
head, out of my head, so that I could focus on my study of the dance.
That was it, that was all. Anything else that happened was an
unintentional byproduct. And there were a LOT of unintentional
byproducts. Like you won't believe....
The power of my blog was staggering to say the least. I had no idea
what I had in my hands at all until about 6 months into it when I was
getting a daily readership of 1500 UNIQUE visitors a day, and when
that number jumped to 6000 a day by the time I stopped daily postings
2 months ago, and then far exceeded that afterwards...well perhaps
staggering isn't the right word. No matter, I really had nothing of
importance to say to anyone at all. Nothing. My views, my words,
were for me and me alone. If anyone found any meaning in all of my
seemingly arrogant self indulgence then I'm flattered but really there
are far more qualified people to talk about the state of tango than
I. I am nothing and my words and views even less.
Suffice it said, that TangoBliss served its purpose.
I have other things I need to do, such as: Learning to be a better
lead. Learning to be a much better follower. Social dancing a lot
more. Talking a lot less.
This next year will do just that and more. Its time to be quiet.
And its time tangobliss went away. And it has. The reviews of every
milonga, gone. The reviews of every festival, gone. The experience
of a beginner that became a barely passable intermediate, all gone. I
erased it all. The only thing that remains are the videos of those
experiences that are up on youtube.com. I will add to them a bit now
and again with festivals and experiences that I haven't shared. But
there will be no more personal videos from me and no more showing
anyone anything about my progress or talking about it anymore. Its
time to be quiet.
Thank you all for visiting and reading.
Sincerely,
Miles.
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:40:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Mario <sopelote@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Tango-L] The Disappearance of Tangobliss.com
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Miles, for god's sake please go un-erase those blog entries. You are techie enough to know how to do that.
You are not the only blogger to erase his history...NYtangojunkie did it, too....
I'm only glad that I took the time to read it all, right from your very first day on the job.
It was great being a newbie tangobaby myself and reading the ups and downs of another.
I paint and have studied the work/lives of painters..it is not an unusual thing for
an artist to destroy his early work... it's a damn shame but it happens.
I wish you wouldn't put yourself down as arrogant, etc. That's what it took for you
to take the intense journey that you did... who the hell, else, did something like that
in so short and passionate a year??? no one...damn, you got to keep that record
and not erase it forever..you will look back on it someday and chuckle to yourself..
YEAH, WELL-DONE, MILES!!
Heck, all those viewers clocking in each day, they knew what they were doing
and what they were getting from it.. mil gracias, Miles.
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:43:47 -0800
From: Michael Knowles <binkster@binkster.net>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The Disappearance of Tangobliss.com
To: tango-l@mit.edu
> And its time tangobliss went away. And it has. The reviews of every
> milonga, gone. The reviews of every festival, gone. The experience
> of a beginner that became a barely passable intermediate, all gone. I
> erased it all...
Not gone, just gone out of your control, Miles. Is that what you wanted;
to give up control of your writings? People can still see your archived
articles but now they aren't being given the context you intended and/or
the latest updates. All that's left are the ghosts of archive.org:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://tangobliss.com
I think taking down the site is a mistake. Putting it back up and
continuing to write about the trajectory of your tango experience
maintains your hand on the reins and shows steadiness of resolve.
Michael 'Bink' Knowles
binkster@binkster.net
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:29:16 +0100
From: "Christian L?then" <christian.luethen@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The Disappearance of Tangobliss.com
To: tango-l@mit.edu
Another infantile blogsphere action!
"He he, I am gone." Read: 'please beg me to be up again'.
Not happy with all the attention you've appearantly received so far? Need more?
Well, at least: you can compete with the argentine ego an narcism!
If you'd be just for the blog you could have just posted that final remark on your blogs site. But no: you needed even more attention and had to post it to tango-L!
Not that I knew your site/blog, but advertising it that way even uncourages me to have a look at the webarchive!
Therefore, in conclusion: to me you only seem to be an "advanced beginner" by now ... knowing some steps but most of all learned how to self-pity yourself the real argentine way. Your blog aparantly was about a beginning tanguero ... seems you're still in that phase!
Good luck to become better - in eventually _dancing_ tango.
Christian
[Miles wrote to tango-L about closing his tangobliss blog]
> And its time tangobliss went away. And it has. The reviews of every
> milonga, gone. The reviews of every festival, gone. The experience
> of a beginner that became a barely passable intermediate, all gone. I
> erased it all. The only thing that remains are the videos of those
> experiences that are up on youtube.com. I will add to them a bit now
> and again with festivals and experiences that I haven't shared. But
> there will be no more personal videos from me and no more showing
> anyone anything about my progress or talking about it anymore. Its
> time to be quiet.
>
> Thank you all for visiting and reading.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Miles.
>
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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:37:27 -0500
From: Carol Shepherd <arborlaw@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] The Disappearance of Tangobliss.com
To: tango-l@mit.edu
I don't have any problem with Miles doing what he did.
He had a large audience from this mailing list and he was notifying them
as he was receiving inquiries.
How does a catty personal slam from Christian Luthen about "eventually
dancing tango" relate to Miles's decision to stop writing a personal
journal about it.....doesn't.
Sounds like someone "needs more" attention from this list.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
CS
Christian L?then wrote:
> Another infantile blogsphere action!
>
> "He he, I am gone." Read: 'please beg me to be up again'.
>
> Not happy with all the attention you've appearantly received so far? Need more?
>
> Well, at least: you can compete with the argentine ego an narcism!
>
> If you'd be just for the blog you could have just posted that final remark on your blogs site. But no: you needed even more attention and had to post it to tango-L!
>
> Not that I knew your site/blog, but advertising it that way even uncourages me to have a look at the webarchive!
>
> Therefore, in conclusion: to me you only seem to be an "advanced beginner" by now ... knowing some steps but most of all learned how to self-pity yourself the real argentine way. Your blog aparantly was about a beginning tanguero ... seems you're still in that phase!
>
> Good luck to become better - in eventually _dancing_ tango.
> Christian
>
>
>
> [Miles wrote to tango-L about closing his tangobliss blog]
>
>> And its time tangobliss went away. And it has. The reviews of every
>> milonga, gone. The reviews of every festival, gone. The experience
>> of a beginner that became a barely passable intermediate, all gone. I
>> erased it all. The only thing that remains are the videos of those
>> experiences that are up on youtube.com. I will add to them a bit now
>> and again with festivals and experiences that I haven't shared. But
>> there will be no more personal videos from me and no more showing
>> anyone anything about my progress or talking about it anymore. Its
>> time to be quiet.
>>
>> Thank you all for visiting and reading.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Miles.
>>
>
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