Prince “Chartreuse” Campbell, of Chartruse the blog, which soon morphed into Chartreuse2, the paid blog, which lasted all of two weeks, has apparently disappeared. While he appeared on the scene much earlier on in the year than when I first started (a few months ago), he did draw some attention for his closing down his successful blog to start up the paid one.
[Over at the BlogHerald, I questioned a little snarkily how successfully a subscription based blog would work -- particularly since that model hasn't really been shown to work in the past, and there was also a "coolness" test, where you had to show knowledge of Mr. Campbell and his blog in addition to ponying up the cash to subscribe. It sounds like it didn't work.]
At any rate, it seems as though he’s gone missing. With a history of a medical condition, it is particularly concerning. No matter what your opinion of the man, if you hear anything try and direct questions to his family.
For more details see Loren over at 1838, and Matt over at the BlogHerald
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:00 pm | Permalink
Too bad, I quite enjoyed chartreuse every 2 posts out of 5.
Which is a pretty good ratio.
When chartreuse2 first came up the password for the protected posts was publicly available if you snooped enough through the pages. There really wasn’t anything to though.
November 24th, 2006 at 8:24 am | Permalink
Not sure, but by the sounds of Loren’s post things didn’t end happily between them. Read the post closely, something happened.
I can’t believe the whole Chartreuse thing collapsed so fast - the subscription idea (and all that went with it) was never going to work - it was like he was purposely self-destructing his image. Strange.
November 24th, 2006 at 8:26 am | Permalink
Yeah, I noticed that — didn’t want to dwell on that too much and wanted to focus on the fact the chap is missing.
November 24th, 2006 at 8:39 am | Permalink
Hope it’s just a case of him not wanting to be found, or he’s onto another gig and nothing else.
Either way, not much we can do expect to keep an eye if he appears on the b’sphere someplace.
November 25th, 2006 at 12:43 am | Permalink
He was a great writer. Its really sad to see him disappear. I used to love most of him posts, though many a times I didn`t agree with him, but the way he use to tell his ideas via short stories and simple lines was unmatched.
The last post of him I read was on the “BloggingTimes”. I wish he could start his chartreuse blog again.
>>I can’t believe the whole Chartreuse thing collapsed so fast - the subscription idea (and all that went with it) was never going to work - it was like he was purposely self-destructing his image.
Yeah, I too agree with you Martin on this, but he is such prolific writer, he can build a blog from zero in no time. He has such great abilities, that he can rise from anywhere.