Time to fission. It's me, Sam, saying I am signing off for good over here at Transterrestrial. Check out my new blog at Decisive Win.

Au revoir.

All good things have to come to an end someday.

But I'm sure Rand will do fine. I suspect he bent to the hurricane of punditry which proclaimed individual blogs dead in the wake of Pajamas and Huffington. And guess what, Instapundit still goes strong - and is as individual as always.

Actually, part of the reason Rand expanded and added two contributors (including Sam) was due to time constraints surrounding his new job and move from Cali to Florida. He didn't think that he would have enough time to provide the same amount of Free Ice Cream to us during that time, and felt bad about it. I don't recall anything about "pressures away from individual blogs".

To a large degree, things never really changed all that much. One of the contributors left a while back, and now Sam is moving on as well. It still laregely remained an individual blog.

I'm not sure who proclaimed individual blogs dead, but given that the only three blogs I check on a daily basis (here, Lileks, and Geekpress) are all individual blogs, I think that the rumours of the death of the individual blog have been greatly exaggerated.