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. …