Dear Liz, Jen, Alina, Dio, Beaman, Laura, Yvonne, Ilker, and all of you bloggers out there who make my life a wonder every day,

It was nice walking with you, but now our ways part. And I don’t know how to say goodbye. All I know is how to say thank you. Because I owe you. Because I love and respect you. Because I grew a lot with you. This is my last blog and it’s dedicated to you. I give you a piece of my heart, a dream and a ballad, and I hope you’ll remember me kindly.

I hope the beginning of this entry was not too scary.

No, it is not my last blog (that’s the only lie). It’s a metaphoric response to a meme. James didn’t start it, as I believed at first, but he continued it, tagged me and caused a few restless hours that day (plus one or two nightmares).

A scary meme… and the guilty one, the Urban Monk needs our entries for a good cause. For each link back he gets he will put one dollar aside. The moment he reaches 500… he will donate to a charity.

Good cause, Monk. Nice way to get some link love and I bet your rankings will boost too. Nothing wrong with that, but why do you need to scare us?

“Bloggers: The blogosphere is coming to an end. You have one last post. What is it going to be? What is the final summary of your blog? What is the one last gem that you want to leave with your readers?”

And now you know my answer: my last entry is going to be a thank you note. This meme really made me think about a scary “what if”.

Honestly, I cannot imagine my life without blogging and I don’t know what “something better” might come along. I certainly don’t like the digg-alike stuff (nope… no digg buttons on my blogs)… OK, from a networking point of view I understand the value and I like the concept, but blogs are freedom.

Blogs are special because … well, read my Writers in Balance and The Dreamcatcher entries and you’ll have some of the answers there. I am not going to repeat here anything.

I will just say: yes, one day it will happen. Blogs will become “passé” but I doubt that blogs are dinosaurs. Many believe that the apparition of the eBook meant the extinction of the traditional books. Yet the number of printed books is increasing instead of decreasing.

I think we are looking in the wrong direction. Blogging is about networking; about people getting together and sharing a dream, about conversation. If the platform will change or the name will receive a new nerdy definition… who cares? The basic principle will still be there: it’s all about us… getting together, virtually, wherever we are.

And… by the way… you’re tagged! Please tell me what do you think about “the end of the blogosphere as we know it”?!