Xavier Moisant's personal annotations on this page
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on 2008-10-31
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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.
This link has been bookmarked by 83 people . It was first bookmarked on 21 Oct 2008, by Marion Walton.
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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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Felipe LavínThinking 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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@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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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? -
Rhondda PowlingArticle about the relevance of writing a blog today,and compares blogs to other social media tools
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Will RichardsonThinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expressi -
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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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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Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find
personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones. - 5 more annotations...
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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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Ellen Marie MurphyEmerging Technologies?
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Darcy GoshornAdvice from Wired Magazine: Shut down your blog; you can't compete. Take refuse in Twitter, Flickr & YouTube.
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