Comments on: Twitter killed the blogging star?

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:12:02 +0000

I know Paul. Not only is he being inflammatory, he’s striking out at a boss that recently downsized him from blogging full-time.

This is reactionary. Wired’s the only group here who should be ashamed. Paul’s just being Paul. Wired’s letting him be Paul on their pages without any “controls”.

By: Angela Connor

Angela Connor — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:48:14 +0000

Colleen: I read that as well and completely disagreed. My blog is growing and I am adding new ones to my RSS reader at least twice a week. It could be dead for some, and I can imagine that those who have been blogging for ten years could very well feel as though it’s dead. But it’s alive and well for me and I enjoy it immensely. We have to remember, everyone has an opinion. It’s up to us to buy into it or not. I say do what feels right, and if blogging feels right…then it isn’t dead.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:44:41 +0000

Blogging isn’t dead. It just must adapt. Right now people are OD’d on blogs because of people’s sheeplike nature.

I have noted that, like in music, people have no idea what’s good and what’s not, so they depend on their friends (or nowadays some online reputation thingy) to tell them. So some splogger goes out and does the blogosphere equivalent of payola and poof a “popular” blog with absolutely no value.

People are OD’d on the splogs. After a while you realize that scoble & John Chow (big arrogant asshole) aren’t really doing anything for you, who’s winning is them. Me, I’m an indie blogger with NO ADS — well almost.

Perhaps someone can make a software that analyzes blogs for ads and those that score low surely must be recognized as the most authentic voices. I dream that my blog will be someday be like the NPR of blogs totally reader supported, or something.

By: swissfondue

swissfondue — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:54:23 +0000

Compared to Twitter, blogs allow for more indepth communication, by the means of a) more space to state your case b) allows more links to relevant content and opinions c) keeps comments (or links thereto) in one place d) allows you to integrate multi-media, mashups, widgets, etc. to increase/complement the value of your content. e) keep a more easily retrievable history of your content

In my case, I’m only micro-blogging presently, but I will probably start a blog based on the above.

The main disadvantage to me of blogging it would require a greater time investment, that I don’t have at the moment.