Twitter killed the blogging star?

 A couple of days ago, Wired’s Paul Boutin claimed that blogging was dead with this lede:
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.
So…. ok. Fine. Blogging is *so* 2004. Everyone’s gone to Twitter etc, blah blah blah.
What’s this really? This article? Is blogging dead?
No.
You’re here.
I’m here.
I’m here a lot. Heck, many of you guys are here a lot. I can tell. (I have my ways…. mwa-ha-ha!)
What I see in Boutin’s article, is that he’s being inflammatory. He’s trying to stir shit up. Hell, it’s one of the tenets …read more