Judd Exits The Rising Blogger

The Ris­ing Blog­ger was a cre­ation of Mimi Lenox and Bud Weiser in April 2007. This blog was con­ceived for a cou­ple of rea­sons. One rea­son was that Bobby Griffin’s Bestest Blog had shut down. While there were a lot of blog review­ers and awards out in the blo­gos­phere, most barely seem to touch on giv­ing the reader a real feel for the blog. The real key in The Ris­ing Blogger’s devel­op­ment was the idea to award posts and not blogs. It worked and the response has been very over­whelm­ing. I was brought in to admin­is­trate the blog and to give Bud and Mimi a sense of anonymity.

Mimi Lenox took a lit­tle time off to con­cen­trate on her Peace Globe move­ment. It was at that point we solicited new writ­ers and changed to cred­it­ing our authors. We were pub­lish­ing seven days a week for a long time. The biggest new con­trib­u­tor was Lori Hahn. I could never thank her enough for help­ing to keep this blog going. We would like to thank our other writ­ers, as well. Dawn Drover, Epiphany Alone and Crushed By Ing­soc all gave us some great reviews. Bud has wanted out of the posi­tion of head writer. Not because he still doesn’t love the blog and the work, but his own blog, WTIT Tape Radio: The Blog. is pub­lished almost every day. Bud, by the way com­pleted his 200th post this week. As a blog, we have had almost 300 winners.

The most inter­est­ing aspect of this ven­ture was that our traf­fic was just about the same when we went from daily pub­lish­ing to about twice a week. You read­ers are very loyal and we all thank you from the bot­tom of our hearts. We would like to thank the writ­ers who recently started writ­ing: Bar­bara, Mimzie and Mas­g­blog. We had hoped this would keep us going and let Bud depart. Unfor­tu­nately, it did not work out that way.

The good news is that The Ris­ing Blog­ger will con­tinue. It will be with­out me, however.

We received a ter­rific offer from a very well-known blog­ger who will take The Ris­ing Blog­ger over in the next cou­ple of days. I will not elab­o­rate, just so she can intro­duce her­self and her vision of what this blog will become. I am look­ing for­ward to the new Ris­ing Blog­ger and am quite proud of the work we did here.

To turn the blog over, how­ever, I will lose my cur­rent email address. But you can now reach me at jcorizan@gmail.com. And I will return to the blo­gos­phere, but not in the awards/review arena. Bud and I have dis­cussed a con­cept that we are very excited about. If you are on our email list, you will receive an update on that when it hap­pens. If you don’t hear any­thing by Sep­tem­ber, please email me and I will give you the information.

It is our biggest hope that you will con­tinue to read and sup­port The Ris­ing Blog­ger. We are thrilled that the work will continue.

So thank you, my friends and read­ers. Keep the faith, fly a Peace Globe, and live well. I hope to see you at my new blog in the future!

Farewell–
Judd Corizan

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