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Thanks for the list - but there's only one blog that I want to read first thing each day!
You're down to 93 already... DOTA has seemingly been removed.

Delighted to note another two correct uses of fewer today :)
*faints*
For me reading your blog first thing every morning is part of my days routine. I have no time for "Twitter" with it's short messages, and only use Facebook if I have to.
Although smartphones may not be ideal for for blogs with a sidebar, I read this week that TV is becoming a very popular way to access the internet. Many new TV's have either WiFi or an Ethernet socket, the idea is that people can view streaming videos like YouTube, or watch on line movies on a large screen.-the TV's have players for that function. I have a 47" TV connected to the internet, and can use Windows through it, although I seldom use it for that purpose, so perhaps tomorrow I will use it to read your blog, should be plenty of room for a sidebar!. Who knows one day maybe a renaissance of blogging will come about as couch potatoes idly scroll their internet TV's after getting bored with continuous TV repeats.
dg in huge wide screen!.
Survival of the fittest!
I wouldn't say diamond geezer is past its prime, it literally is the first thing I look at online, it's even bookmarked on my kindle.
You're on mine DG: http://londondocklands.wordpress.com/
Please don't think your blog is past it's prime. Your blog is one of a select few that I subscribe to via an rss feed because I want to read your verbose ramblings every day! Twitter and Facebook have their place but it's horses for courses.
You are one of the few blogs worth reading. I think only the good ones continue. Many fall by the wayside in search of the new new thing. Please carry on.
I agree with all the above. First daily thing, not past your prime, etc.

I often think, on first reading, that I do not really need to read about (whateverItIs). But I usually find by the time I've come to the end, that actually I did. (Except if it's kittens). This to me is the mark of a truly gifted writer.
When a man is tired of writing about London it is time he moved to Eastbourne! Since you posted two hours ago I’ve had half as many views as I had all of yesterday, keep the faith, bruv.
You'll still on my blog - just look in the bar on the side for "My Blog List".
I read your blog every morning!

You're on my blogroll, but I haven't written anything since 4th August as I haven't been anywhere of note. This will be rectified in a few days' time.
You are the only blog I read every day. Please don't stop blogging.
Keep the blog going - it's necessary reading for anyone who lives in London!

Your blog is on the second tab of my PC's browser (the first is BBC news).
Don't forget F-Life!(Beta)
Glad to see The Ham & Egger Files blog listed on your blogroll blog post ;-)

Happy to have your blog listed on my blog. The minigolf link to my '10 minutes on Canvey Island' still gets a few clicks ;-)

All the best,

Richard
I too tend to visit DG as the first thing I look at online each day, and read back through the previous week's posts when I return from holiday sans internet. I haven't written on my blog since the beginning of the month, but I am going to post today after a visit this afternoon, and will resume regular activity now a fairly hefty project is out of the way.
Please don't stop DG, you are a genius - how else to describe the way you come up with something fascinating every day?
I found your blog whilst looking for info on the Olympics this summer. It was invaluable and became the only place I used. Even though our glorious summer of sport is now past, I am still reading yourblog, for all things London ready for my next visit. Keep blogging DG
Have been following your blog for years and been irregularly blogging since Sept 09. You've been on my Blogroll since then. Do I get listed?
I last posted on my blog in late August. That will teach me for being lazy…
You have a brilliant blog and your style and humour is second to none.
You do go on about london transport rather a lot which has a limited interest for me in South Wales but the rest of it is excellent and I would miss it a lot.
Cheer up and stop feeling sorry for yourself.Get a grip
I don't blog but DG is an invaluable source of industrial and social history (prompts, background, ideas, whatever) for the ISH Journal I edit for a small group. I always acknowledge DG as a source and the day this resource goes 'past it's prime', I'll be long past mine too. Keep going about what winds you up, makes you smile, tells me what I didn't know or have forgotten. And make sure you slag off Boris regularly - his mates in the Evening Standard still think he's wonderful.
Thanks for linking back to Instant London! I included Diamond Geezer in my blogroll because it's a blog I come back to frequently. There's so much drivel out there on blogs, twitter and other platforms that finding a regularly updated blog that always has interesting content (and opinions rather than just promotional stuff) is worth bookmarking.
I don't think the shrinking of the list is anything to do with you at all, not when the number one source of casualties is people forgetting about, giving up on or deleting blogs, and you're not on many new blogrolls for the simple reason that there aren't many new blogrolls - or blogs, for that matter.

Blogging is so 2003. Nowadays you have to be all 'social' and 'Web 2.0' an' that, which is a nightmare for the estimated third of the world's population who seek out social contact only when forced and can't stand all this artificial mateyness and endless excruciating banality that platforms like Facebook and Twitter encourage.

The trendy folk who got into blogging because it was 'cool' and being able to say you had a blog was ever so desirable, daaahhling, have deserted in favour of Pinterest and Instagram and the current top fad, "Why not download our iWhatsit app? It doesn't do much except advertise us, but hey, we've got an app! How cool are we?" The blogosphere is not in the least poorer for their absence. If the last blog left in the world is Diamond Geezer's, at least a significant proportion of the sum total of quality when blogging was at its height has survived.
I don't claim to be a regular, DG. I drop into your blog, and also into your Flickr photos. And I don't see you as a blogger but a journalist /columnist. So it was ironic that when you were labelled as "unaccredited". Your pieces are as good as, if not better than half those in the accredited papers I see.
It's up to people who appreciate your blog to spread the word by sharing our enthusiasm. Using links and proper sentences. Maybe with more than 140 characters - if we still remember how to do that.)
Thanks everyone.

But...

...last year this post gathered ten new blogs in the comments, and this year we're only on three. Are ther really no more out there?
Mr Geezer, thanks so much for the link. DG is where I do my walking around London by proxy, and it's a privilege to be able to do that. Thanks for all you write, and don't stop.
Many thanks for re-adding me to you list,
getting dropped last year due to lack of posting was one strong incentive for me to restarting posting.
I continue to be delighted with you daily posts. Blog rolls do seem to be going out fashion, but I don't think that is any reflection on your blog.
I'm another regular reader and I rarely look at any other blogs (unless you mention or link to them).

It is clear how much research and care goes into each post. I'm not surprised that as you send it off to the ether of the internet you occasionally wonder if there is anyone out there.

Although I read daily I only intermittently comment on rare occasions when I have something meaningful to add. Maybe blogs should have a like button as on Facebook. We could then show our appreciation without leaving a written comment.

I'm sure there are many people like me who thoroughly appreciate your work, but we are usually invisible to you.

Keep up the good work!
A regular reader of the Daily Geezer, so please keep going !
since I discovered your blog (mid 2011) I've looked at it first thing every morning, after I've checked emails if any and looked at facebook. also occasionally look later as well, like now. while I have restricted mobility, it's a surrogate visit to the many places I can't visit but hope to get to eventually.

Your blog is fun and interesting to read and one of the 1st websites i look at in the morning, keep up the good work! :)
Keep fighting the good fight, DG...

I despair at the modern society that seemingly can't comprehend anything that isn't broken down into no more than 140 characters (of which every 10 or 12 will invariably be 'lol').

That's 140 CHARACTERS, mind. Moddin yoof (they can't bother to pronounce properly or to spell correctly, either) would probably need top-ups of their fave energy drinks if they were confronted with 140 WORDS ... let alone the tome-like productions (you say 800 words ... but I've never counted!) that you are quite capable of producing!

Loved the Olympic Games-related episodes!

Just as I love it when one of your pieces references a place that I have visited on one of my visits (from New Zealand) to your great city. HAPPY reminiscing follows...
I'm another one who reads Diamond Geezer first thing at work every morning. It really helps make living in London just that little bit more awesome.










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