The Last of the Flying Plants

It has been quite a troubled time recently for me, which partially explains my prolonged absence from this blog.

After some hesitation and thinking, I have decided to permanently shut down the blog Also Plants Fly. So, this is going to be my last post here - the last of the Flying Plants, to put it ironically.

After about 3 years and more than 200 posts, it is time for an objective evaluation and seeing where we are at: Also Plants Fly gets about 10 readers a day, of which more than 90% are random bouncers from google or blogger, sadly a similar figure to the one I reported a couple of years ago.

However this is not the main reason for shutting down this blog. If we exclude the great learning experience I had while writing for Also Plants Fly, I cannot really say I got much out of it: as the low readership proves, I was not able to share my thoughts about every-day's interfaces, nor to build or join a small interactive community around this topic. As it is now, Also Plants Fly is just an isolated blog where I post some thoughts like on a personal diary online. The time invested on this project did not pay back and I think it is about time to admit it.

I am of course the only one responsible for this failure: I guess that my irregular postings didn't really help, nor my choice of topics. As I do not like unfinished work, I am writing this last post to put the word END to this project.

Also note that this blog will remain online under the address alsoplantsfly.com until the end of the year 2011, but then I will relocate it in a sub-directory (probably blog.alsoplantsfly.com). Feel anyway free to contact me for any question you might have in the future about the posts.

"The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck."

It was a great journey.

Andrea Bianchi