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Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It's almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.
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"Blogging is simply too big, too impersonal, and lacks the intimacy that drew me to it,"
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Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones
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Take a clue from Robert Scoble, who made his name as Microsoft's "technical evangelist" blogger from 2003 to 2006. Today, he focuses on posting videos and Twitter updates. "I keep my blog mostly for long-form writing," he says.
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Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004. You'll find Scoble, Calacanis, and most of their buddies from the golden age there. They claim it's because Twitter operates even faster than the blogosphere.
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As a writer, though, I'm onto the system's real appeal: brevity. Bloggers today are expected to write clever, insightful, witty prose to compete with Huffington and The New York Times. Twitter's character limit puts everyone back on equal footing. It lets amateurs quit agonizing over their writing and cut to the chase.
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@WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook?
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Twitter's character limit puts everyone back on equal footing.
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26 Nov 08
Sheryl A. McCoyA very negative view of blogs, trends, issues and their purpose.
As a writer, though, I'm onto the system's real appeal: brevity. Bloggers today are expected to write clever, insightful, witty prose to compete with Huffington and The New York Times. Twitter's character limit puts everyone back on equal footing. It lets amateurs quit agonizing over their writing and cut to the chase. @WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook?twitter socialnetworking blog blogging facebook flickr socialmedia reading motivation purpose
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Rhondda PowlingArticle about the relevance of writing a blog today,and compares blogs to other social media tools
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23 Nov 08
Will RichardsonThinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
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Mikel AgirregabiriaRead about the latest Entertainment News on Wired.com, including art, technology, films, animation, music, web video, tv, podcasts, and blogs.
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Paul GillinTwitter's character limit puts everyone back on equal footing, says Paul Boutin.
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Jamie SonnevilleThinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
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Michael BeckerWired warns us against starting a new blog in 2008 because the blogosphere just ain't what it used to be. Instant communication tools like Twitter and social networks like Facebook make blogs look like slow-moving relics from another tech age.
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A. T. WyattBlogs are Dead. Excellent article as a prompt for thinking about what technology tools support and don't support, especially if you are going to use them in the classroom.
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Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
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If you quit now, you're in good company.
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Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones.
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Further, text-based Web sites aren't where the buzz is anymore. The reason blogs took off is that they made publishing easy for non-techies. Part of that simplicity was a lack of support for pictures, audio, and videoclips.
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Social multimedia sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook have since made publishing pics and video as easy as typing text.
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Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004.
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Michel BauwensScroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones. Most are essentially online magazines: The Huffington Post. Engadget. TreeHugger. A stand-alone commentator can't keep up with a
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Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
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Tony SearlWriting a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaign
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Alejandro TortoliniArticulo de Paul Boutin en contra de los blogs. Publicado en Wired.
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Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago.
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When blogging was young, enthusiasts rode high, with posts quickly skyrocketing
to the top of Google's search results for any given topic, fueled by generous
links from fellow bloggers. In 2002, a search for "Mark" ranked Web developer
Mark Pilgrim above author Mark Twain. That phenomenon was part of what made
blogging so exciting. No more. Today, a search for, say, Barack Obama's latest
speech will deliver a Wikipedia page, a Fox News article, and a few entries from
professionally run sites like Politico.com. The odds of your clever entry
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Further, text-based Web sites aren't where the buzz is anymore. The reason blogs
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Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to 2008 what
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And Twitter posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google to index
them.
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Rashid Al-YahyaiThinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug
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Roger WillsonThinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
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Roger ChenThinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
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Bryon SabolInteresting comment on blogs being impersonal. There is a shift to more professional blogs from the personal blogs.
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Jason Calacanis made millions from his Weblogs network. But he flat-out retired his own blog in July. "Blogging is simply too big, too impersonal, and lacks the intimacy that drew me to it," he wrote in his final post.
Impersonal is correct: Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones. Most are essentially online magazines: The Huffington Post. Engadget. TreeHugger. A stand-alone commentator can't keep up with a team of pro writers cranking out up to 30 posts a day.
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And Twitter posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google to index them.
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"Blogging is simply too big, too impersonal, and lacks the intimacy that drew me to it,"
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awqi zarRead about the latest Entertainment News on Wired.com, including art, technology, films, animation, music, web video, tv, podcasts, and blogs.
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