Has John Cow Secretly Departed?

A lot of people who obsessively read mock impersonator John Cow (for which I am not one to be honest) Are aware that Mr Cow recently put the blog up for sale. If I remember rightly he was asking in the region of $50k.

I think ‘Bob’ (blog owner’s real name… I think) Needed the money as he mentioned he’s moving to Australia so needed some quick funding. The site was listed on Sitepoint and put up on DP. Bob gave us the impression that it didn’t sell in a short follow up post about the sale; Saying numerous buyers had not followed through.

A little while after and I’m strangely suspicious given the sort of ‘new nature’ of the posts. Everything sort of seems normal and there has been no official announcement saying the blog has been sold (as far as I’m aware) But posts seem to be a little different.

I do glance through Cow’s posts on occasion as they can often be interesting / witty but lately I’m left with a strange feeling of unfamiliarity. Is it just me or does the recognizable writing style for which Cow was affiliated with seem to be… slightly missing.

As well as an odd feeling concerning a lack of the usual literary magic, there also seems to be more posts about advertising, more reviews, a few 125 ads available (unusual for Cow) and the blog seems to have lost a bit of the usual ‘fun’.

There are also slightly new structures to posts, with similar picture insertion cuttings, and the writing seems to be much more formal. I’m slightly inclined to the possibility that a new owner may be present, attempting to keep up the norm with rigorous cow puns every now n’ then.

Some times new owners of blogs with a definitive owner can be victims of odd, vigorous comment / blogesphere abuse. Can’t think of any off hand but I think there has been a few cases.

Anyone else conform to the notion that maybe Mr Cow has sneakily left our presence, allowing the new owner to take place discreetly?

John / Bob / New owner, if you read this, let us know!