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  Robert Seidman

  11 months ago

  lease don't make the mistake that Hodson, Rowse and the other bemoaners would make of lumping ALL blogging into TECH blogging. I can't comment on tech blogging in general because I'm not a tech blogger. Outside of that sphere however, I feel like these ARE the good old days. And I "blogged" from 1994-2000 the first time around...
  
  Seems to me that there really is no blogging 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0. There are people who love to produce content and people who love to consume it. Everything else just seems like noise.
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  Duncan Riley

  11 months ago

  To some extent, true Robert. There are always people who love to produce content. But that community of old is coming back. 2.0 is, admittedly, a convenient label, but I can find no other way of labelling the tools and the move we are currently seeing.
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  igorthetroll

  11 months ago

  Duncan the Social Media networks broke all boundaries of Blogging! Before you had to have a popular Blog like TechCrunch to make a statement, today it is all about synergy and connecting with your followers!
  
  One does not need a HiveThink mass to be relevant. An active and prominent micro community listening to what you have to say and spreading the gospel is much more desirable!
  
  Werewolf! Enlightened minority is more powerful than ignorant majority! The Revolution!
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  ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

  11 months ago

  Duncan, you speak to something very interesting... the viral effect of social mediums. I wonder, however, if this brings quantity - not quality, as I fear many in the social media space are simply looking to build their bank of followers and dish scoop!
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  Duncan Riley

  11 months ago

  Changeforge, true, there will always be, and are, people who will game the system for the ultimate goal of traffic, but I think we're seeing a shift away from people like that towards people who participate properly in the conversation
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  ChangeForge | Ken Stewart

  11 months ago

  I personally like the fact that very narrow niche's have evolved. Sure there are very self-centered blogs - but there are also blogs that attempt to achieve a community look and feel, something I am striving very hard to attain.
  
  Your article is on-point and also diagnostic of the simple truth blogging mirrors the real world. There is more focus than ever on reaching well-targeted audiences in business - and so it is with blogging as well.
  
  You refer to this as "revolution" when I would suggest it is evolution at work. As more voices join the chorus, the tone of the music changes.
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  Laforge129

  11 months ago

  I don't think blogging is bad. In truthfulness, having been blogging for over almost a year. I don't think social media is all the way broken through. I still get most of my blog hits from people searching for keywords. I am almost certain that there is a small group of people who are socializing but most of the internet are doing the SEO thing!! Well IMHO it is more than socializing it is the chance to make a difference!!
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  Jay Cuthrell

  11 months ago

  Are we so unimaginative that we are relegated to version numbering for emerging social and technology trends?
  
  Why not call it the wide personal broadcasting movement: a period of time and the tools of this period that reflected a desire to allow personal broadcasting in variety of formats previously afforded to a select elite.
  
  Pre-dating this period is the select personal broadcasting movement, the wide publishing movement, the select publishing movement, and the era of traditional journalism and communications.
  
  Post-dating this period will be the era of latency diminished narrow publishing, the era of latency diminished wide publishing, and finally --- the great anti-posterity revolution in which nobody wants to share or broadcast anything that is not uniquely personal to their own proximity.
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  Duncan Riley

  11 months ago

  qthrul, no argument on the name, but it is easy to label the tools and the change they represent in a collective noun. We're seeing something new, a repeat of the community of old, but facilitated with new tools.
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  Scobleizer

  11 months ago

  I think the community is coming back and coming back strongly. I've been at lots of parties lately, in Washington DC, in Israel, in Los Angeles, in Seattle, and in San Francisco and I get great feelings at every one of these parties. I haven't seen the jerks show up, and I haven't seen bad feelings show up either in any of these recent events. I also see a new spirit, one where new bloggers feel like they are included. I think that's due to Twitter and FriendFeed's growing importance, but also due to the efforts of those in each community to be welcoming. Anyway, I'm going through my Google Reader feeds and adding quite a few people that I discovered on FriendFeed. Hope that FriendFeed's community continues to be great and that we resist the jerks as long as possible.
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  gregorylent

  11 months ago

  intention is everything
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  Rishi Seth

  1 month ago

  I think Blogging is becoming much like what the dotcom's were in the early part of 2000. Booming left right and centre without knowing what problem they are solving and why will they exist for the long term. Blogging community needs to stop looking at it as a way to make money but more towards how it can overcome today's challenges.
  
  That is when some truely useful things will come out of this - else i see this becoming a digital personal diary more than anything else
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