Anyone who holds down a job and has tried to maintain a regular blog will know that it requires a good deal of effort and patience to keep it going. I suspect that is one of the reasons we have seen the growth of collective blogs with three, four or more contributors. How someone has the time, energy and enthusiasm to maintain a site like The YamYam, even if it was the only 
thing they did, is beyond me.
Well… it is beyond The YamYam editor Mark too, because to much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth… The YamYam’s gooin’ away…
Best of luck in whatever you do, Mark. Your hard work has encouraged bloggers across Walsall and the West Midlands, and as the tributes show, you will be sorely missed.
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Hey thanks Bob.
Your blog was one of the few local blogs in the close vicinity of Walsall that preceded the YamYam. The fact that you sometimes blogged on events in Walsall and on other stuff of general interest such as cricket and books you’d been reading was very useful. By aggregating some of your posts I was able to show others how a good blog can be done.
So thank you too for your role in helping make the YamYam a success.
All the best
Mark
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add my thoughts to exactly what Bob said will miss the YAM YAM a lot
Lets start a campaign: ‘Save the Yam Yam’, get people out on the streets with petitions, we can’t let the Yam Yam gew, can we?
I doubt we will get a Cairo-style demo going on this one, Derek, but it would be good if other Walsall based bloggers were able to help Mark keep it going in some fashion. However, a word of warning. When Adrian Goldberg left the Stirrer it was taken on by other people who weren’t able to maintain the character of the site and it has become a bit of a repository for a group of unimaginative and bitter right-wingers in the main. I’m sure from the general thrust of the Walsall blog network this wouldn’t happen, but Mark is Mark, and the YamYam is his style.
thing is with the stirrer it is a forum now and Andy went off to do the Birmingham Press site.
Mark provided a very good post on what he sees as the future and there is one for that kind of site BUT can it ever make money, I doubt it.
Agreed. Im just a ‘Facebooker’, but really enjoyed the link the Yam yam provided…will miss it!!
What? I thought it was just taking a makeover siesta. Gone? Gone way too soon!!!
Thanx for supporting live Midlands music and for the brief but sweet work you did for ‘Bandzine’. I hope you can mastermind a RETURN…genuine community websites are hard to find.
Peace
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