

First there was a post in a Facebook group recently where a blogger lamented: “I’ve been blogging for four months now and I am still not getting really good traffic – what’s wrong with my site?”. So what’s up with food blogging these days? Two things recently made me ask that question. Every year when this anniversary rolls around and encourages me to engage in some bloggy navel-gazing, I think I must by now have said everything that can possibly be said, and yet every year the wider context of food blogging has changed a little more and I find myself formulating new responses to these changes. And if I am honest, I can barely remember what it was like not to have a blog constantly craving new content, like a hungry cat twirling about my legs, in my life. It does not feel like I have been blogging that long, and yet when you look at the newsworthy events listed above, you realise that eleven years is in fact rather a long time.

Hot Fuss (The Killers) and American Idiot (Green Day) and Funeral (Arcade Fire) were released.the Queen Mary II, the largest cruise liner ever built, made her maiden voyage.

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52.2 million TV viewers tuned in to watch the last ever episode of Friends.an unknown student called Mark Zuckerberg went on TV to talk about his little-known website called The Facebook (which only had about 100,000 subscribers at the time).
