This link has been bookmarked by 17 people . It was first bookmarked on 11 Jul 2007, by Orlin Monad.
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16 Sep 11
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I'm not so sure blogging is dead, jm. New blogs pop up on every few seconds and
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on every few seconds and the emerging markets in Asia and Africa are just starting to be tapped. Blogging has certainly evolved
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Admittedly it's hard to get discussions going on a blog, but the blogs that at least attempt it and actually write for their readers -- these blogs are the most compelling in my view.
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20 Jul 07
mark vanvery interesting post on why blogging is a social core functionality, even within social software
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12 Jul 07
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Judy O'ConnellThere are many other reasons, apart from being social, that people may want to blog. One is to focus on a niche and essentially treat it as a media website, Another reason is to join a distributed conversation about shared interests - usually a half socia
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11 Jul 07
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Marie ColemanObviously blogging is nowhere near dead, but jm does raise some interesting issues. With the rise of MySpace in the last couple of years and now Facebook in 2007, many people aren't writing personal blogs anymore.
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Another reason is to join a distributed conversation about shared interests - usually a half social, half work activity.
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...in industries where lots of people are online, blogging is the single best way to communicate and interact.
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The Best Blogs Are Social
Marc's post focuses on how blogging has in some ways usurped traditional forms of publishing (books etc). But I think R/WW commenter jm actually hit on a more interesting tension - between blogging as a social communications tool and social networks like MySpace/Facebook.
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I think comments are vitally important to a blog.
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Blogs are a publishing platform, sure, but they are a social publishing platform.
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So back to the original question - is blogging dead? Not on your life! Blogs, social networks, newspapers, any other form of publication - all have social aspects to them. It is a spectrum really, with social networks at one extreme and a 19th century novel at the other. But there's room for all types of social publishing platforms.
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If one were to set out to "make their own website" it is almost safely implied that it will be a blog.
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if it isn't a two-way conversation, it's just a frequently updated web page
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Blogging makes managing a website so much easier. For this reason alone, I think blogging will stay alive for many years to come.
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Specialized fields of knowledge, technical discussions or even annotations to the corporate record are all more suitable to a blog than a social network page.
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specialized fields of interest (maybe not exactly knowledge) arethe cornerstone
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blogging is so selfish: I have something to say vs I have something to share with friends!
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What about content? Social networks give cero content to the web. Try googling something, the results are -generally- all about blog posts.
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"Is "blog" a result of the technical design or the social aspect of the medium."
It's both, but partly what I was bemoaning in the second half of the post was that too many 'blogs' are anti-social these days - i.e. they don't post for the readers, but for Google's algorithms or just to get page views.
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Blogging isn't dead but it has sure narrowed down to those who update their blogs regularly. The reason it won't die is becfause of the sense of ownership people have but the novelty has worn off.
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As they say, rock and roll will never die. Blogging is more than just a neato new web platform, and while it certainly benefits from social bookmarking, it is not necessary, nor reliant on it IMHO. Having said that, I recall a report from the Gartner Group recently that declared blogging to peak in 2007, followed by a decline. The assertion is that the novelty aspect is wearing off, and those who will blog, are blogging, and those who were just trying out the newest toy are moving on to the next toy. Blogging will not die, because people want to talk, and get published, and be heard. Blogging will not die because it makes it easy for people to get heard. Blogging cannot die, because it is firmly ingrained into the very fabric of the net, and beyond that, our culture and society. Just like rock and roll.
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