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The blogosphere is alive, well and kicking

Started by Duncan Riley · 8 months ago

The notion that blogging, or the blogosphere may be dead or in its death throws is nearly as old as blogging itself. Some predicted blogging would die with the introduction of advertising, and yet it boomed instead. That blogging and the blogosphere is changing is a given; it always has been c ... Continue reading »

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  • curiouslypersistent

    8 months ago

    Hear Hear. The Internet has always been about blurring boundaries and this is just another example
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  • Tad Chef

    8 months ago

    Those "blogging is dead" articles are classic link baits and they work as you link to all of them. This method is called "pull a calacanis". You badmouth a whole industry to gain attention and links. I read the Wired one and it was so obvious and stupid that I won't even argue with that.
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  • beamer

    8 months ago

    Interesting Post. I guess being relatively new to Blogging (About 2 years), I am very surprised to hear about this. Being a member of E-card, I find it very hard to believe that anyone would be thinking this way. Seems to me that Blogging is doing just fine.

    Beamer
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  • Scabr

    8 months ago

    Blogging is transforming(partially) into microblogging and lifestreaming.Remains are still alive.:)
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  • Mike Nichols

    8 months ago

    The "blogging is dead" articles all ignore the fact that there are many, many kinds of blogs -- personal, informational, promotional, etc. And, like you say, some blogs are readily identifiable as blogs, and nearly as many blur the lines between blog and website.

    To say that blogging is dead is like saying that all animals are extinct, when some are endangered, some are verging on extinction, some are indeed extinct, but the majority are thriving.
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  • thisrollingjoke

    8 months ago

    Here's an excellent retort to the notion that "blogging is dead," via Kevin Cawley at StandingMobile:

    http://www.standingmobile.com/

    Of course, the study is hardly scientific, as it chronicles only one blog's comments (and that blog happens to be tech-related), but my guess is that the results would be largely translatory if conducted over a larger cross-section of blogs. People will always be able to sort the genuine blogs from the frivolous.
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