I am really grateful for NashvilleIsTalking. I appreciate all of the work that Brittney, Mike, Terry, and others put into it. I love experimentation and NiT was a very public experiment. An experiment that created a community.
When Terry left Nashville it felt like a little piece of the experiment left. The ad-network hadn’t materialized. The Nashville bloggers were not taking up video. NiT was not making any money. It wasn’t a failed experiment, but it wasn’t a perfect endeavor either. When Terry left it felt like NiT had lost it’s vision.
When Mike left it also felt like a little piece of the experiment left. At that point it seemed obvious that the big bosses were starting to run out of patience. Lacking new vision, NiT had hit a performing stage. The only problem was that it wasn’t performing financially. I think the financial meagerness of NiT is why Mike left. When Mike left, NiT lost it’s drive.
Now Brittney is gone. The writing has been on the wall for a long time (or at least it has been on SW21 for a long time). Brittney was quite literally the voice of the NiT experiment. She built NiT into a blog worth reading. She was honest about difficulties and was authentic. We all have good times and tough times, but Brittney perservered through them all. As Brittney leaves, NiT is losing it’s personality.
Today, the NiT experiment has ended. It is a process that has been happening for months. There may be a new experiment at the nashvilleistalking.com domain, but it is going to need vision, drive, and personality.
Update: Wow, look at this list of links!
