The Reports of Blogging’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
I interviewed my good friend and colleague Jack Humphrey today, and by chance, he hadn’t yet seen the Wired article that has got the blog-o-sphere all abuzz about the death of blogging. I don’t think I’ve had that much fun on the phone since my last conversation with him. He always has something insightful to say, and this time was no different.
After we got off the phone, I did some internet intel (my fav thing to do) in search of other bloggers to see if they were giving their blogs funerals, too. The search was so fruitful, that I decided to do a round-up and post…so here goes, the best of what I found follows:
Jack Humphrey
Blogging is Dead, According to Wired.com
Paul Boutin, WIRED contributor, wrote “Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.“ -”Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004” …
Matthew Ingram (Funny tombstone on this post)
Blogs are so over, Wired magazine says
Blogs are so 2004. They’re dead now, says Paul Boutin (who also writes for Valleywag) in a piece he wrote for Wired magazine. Here’s his argument (such as it is) in a nutshell:. “The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy …
Andrew Lewin didn’t want to get left out so he blogged…I thought that was funny
The reports of blogging’s death …
I imagine that the blogosphere is going to be awash with responses to Wired’s controversial piece about how blogging is dead. I didn’t want to get left out, so here’s mine! The Wired article “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So …
Wired’s Paul Boutin joins the “blogs are dead” bandwagon
And I have to disagree completely. Blogging is far from dead—blogging is thriving. According to Paul, the reasons you should skip the blogosphere are, roughly: There are too many other blogs Writing more than 140 characters is too much …
Esther Says Blogs aren’t dead, they’re just resting…
Wired Proclaims Blogs “Dead”: “They’re Just Resting,” Bloggers Claim
I mean, if Wired says blogs are over, what am I still doing here? I wonder what I can do with all the time I used to spend blogging…maybe I should get certified as a yoga instructor or try to devote my time to protesting stuff. …
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