Comments on: Blogging is Dead, or So They Say http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html Vancouver Blog Miss604 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Duane Storey http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9415 Duane Storey Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:08:32 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9415 I <a href="http://www.duanestorey.com/2008/11/another-article-saying-blogs-are-dead-or-dying/" rel="nofollow">wrote about this today</a>. I obviously don't think blogging is dead :) I wrote about this today. I obviously don’t think blogging is dead :)

]]> By: mostly lisa http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9414 mostly lisa Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:31:02 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9414 grr! Facebook? Facebook! seriously, facebook is for bottom feeders. you can't express anything without getting 300 application invites and being flooded with a billion lame ads. I'd still rather hear about this article through Miss 604 than Wired. nuff said! grr! Facebook? Facebook! seriously, facebook is for bottom feeders. you can’t express anything without getting 300 application invites and being flooded with a billion lame ads.

I’d still rather hear about this article through Miss 604 than Wired. nuff said!

]]> By: Is Twitter killing the Blog Star? | Translate This! http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9413 Is Twitter killing the Blog Star? | Translate This! Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:31:47 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9413 [...] still don’t want to do without the format, however. Read Blogging Is Dead, or So They Say for more on the subject. Tags » blogging, social networking, Twitter « Trackback: [...] [...] still don’t want to do without the format, however. Read Blogging Is Dead, or So They Say for more on the subject. Tags » blogging, social networking, Twitter « Trackback: [...]

]]> By: Billie Mintz http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9412 Billie Mintz Wed, 29 Oct 2008 02:59:16 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9412 I have three blogs. One for business that I try to infuse a certain level of personal reflection and try to keep my personality come through but I avoid personal issues with because I don't want to offend my clients and because my business is very niche I try to stay to point. I use my facebook blog to be very intimate and personal because I know that the people reading my blog on there are friends that i have accepted and like to get their feedback. The third blog is entirely anonymous because I wouldn't want anyone to know its me. this one I can say whatever I want under trhe guise that it is anonymous and I am very transparent that it is because though it is very personal I still want to share these thoughts as I think it will help others who are going through similar issues. Blogging wont be called blogging in the future and everything we do now will be done different. Social media and our use of connecting through web will evolve just like we do. we are simply going through the process as we discover and experiment how we connect and communicate our ideas to each other. we are part of a live evolving experiment. right now we are learning to become transparent and as the fellow bloggers and those commenting on this entry have already pointed out, we are all feeling out how we want to express ourselves. trends begin and end and once we think we know what is going on, tomorrow it might change. so blogging might die and it might not die but once we stop trying to define what all of this is, the more free we will be to actually let whatever we are becoming, happen. I have three blogs. One for business that I try to infuse a certain level of personal reflection and try to keep my personality come through but I avoid personal issues with because I don’t want to offend my clients and because my business is very niche I try to stay to point. I use my facebook blog to be very intimate and personal because I know that the people reading my blog on there are friends that i have accepted and like to get their feedback. The third blog is entirely anonymous because I wouldn’t want anyone to know its me. this one I can say whatever I want under trhe guise that it is anonymous and I am very transparent that it is because though it is very personal I still want to share these thoughts as I think it will help others who are going through similar issues. Blogging wont be called blogging in the future and everything we do now will be done different. Social media and our use of connecting through web will evolve just like we do. we are simply going through the process as we discover and experiment how we connect and communicate our ideas to each other. we are part of a live evolving experiment. right now we are learning to become transparent and as the fellow bloggers and those commenting on this entry have already pointed out, we are all feeling out how we want to express ourselves. trends begin and end and once we think we know what is going on, tomorrow it might change. so blogging might die and it might not die but once we stop trying to define what all of this is, the more free we will be to actually let whatever we are becoming, happen.

]]> By: Rob http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9411 Rob Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:53:04 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9411 @Ed Newman, re: Decca and the Beatles. To be fair to the Decca execs, the guitar <i>was</i> on it’s way out by 1962. Nobody counted on the fact that songwriting was still very much <i>in</i>, even if guitar-centric 50s rock'n'roll was not (it was all girl groups and teen idols by then). Of course we know that the Beatles had songwriting nailed down (unbeknownst to Decca, since the demo they submitted was comprised mostly of cover versions – if you’d heard it, you would have shitcanned the Beatles too, but that’s besides the point :)). And it was the songs that sold the Beatles in the end once another label, Parlophone, picked them up. But, I think this kind of backs up your point – that the tools and context is changing, but the point of it all has not; that people want to connect with great content created by other people who share a similar, or at least complementary, outlook. That’s why the masses responded to the Beatles in the early 60s, and also why people will continue to respond to great bloggers now – great content that stands out. That much will never change. I never thought I’d get to use the Beatles in an analogy about content, so thanks! @Ed Newman, re: Decca and the Beatles. To be fair to the Decca execs, the guitar was on it’s way out by 1962. Nobody counted on the fact that songwriting was still very much in, even if guitar-centric 50s rock’n'roll was not (it was all girl groups and teen idols by then). Of course we know that the Beatles had songwriting nailed down (unbeknownst to Decca, since the demo they submitted was comprised mostly of cover versions – if you’d heard it, you would have shitcanned the Beatles too, but that’s besides the point :) ). And it was the songs that sold the Beatles in the end once another label, Parlophone, picked them up.

But, I think this kind of backs up your point – that the tools and context is changing, but the point of it all has not; that people want to connect with great content created by other people who share a similar, or at least complementary, outlook. That’s why the masses responded to the Beatles in the early 60s, and also why people will continue to respond to great bloggers now – great content that stands out. That much will never change.

I never thought I’d get to use the Beatles in an analogy about content, so thanks!

]]> By: Ed Newman http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9410 Ed Newman Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:00:57 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9410 I, too, wrote about the Wired dissing of blogging on my own blog this past week. A strange position to take, since it is only emerging... Paul Gillen, in the intro of his book The New Influencers, say he was ever so wrong about blogging when he dissed it before it even started. In 2003 he wrote that blogging's wave "had already crested." He ended up eating his words. It reminded me of the Decca records execs who decided not to sign the Beatles because the guitar was on its way out. Blogging, like the web itself, is evolving. It is a remarkable tool, and we're only discovering it piecemeal. My opinion of the Wired writer in recent issue who smeared blogging was that he just did not like it because it had changed. Well, America has changed since the Founding Fathers, and the world has changed since 1950s... so what? Is the world irrelevant and democracy a failure now because it is different. (Women can vote now, OMG!) Anyways, blogging will not go away any time soon. Look at Twitter, for example. A new evolution that I do not believe is a passing fad... because it is useful. I wrote a couple articles about Karaoke back in 1992 or so, trying to determine if it was a fad. Looks like there is more karaoke than ever... I, too, wrote about the Wired dissing of blogging on my own blog this past week. A strange position to take, since it is only emerging… Paul Gillen, in the intro of his book The New Influencers, say he was ever so wrong about blogging when he dissed it before it even started. In 2003 he wrote that blogging’s wave “had already crested.” He ended up eating his words.

It reminded me of the Decca records execs who decided not to sign the Beatles because the guitar was on its way out.

Blogging, like the web itself, is evolving. It is a remarkable tool, and we’re only discovering it piecemeal.

My opinion of the Wired writer in recent issue who smeared blogging was that he just did not like it because it had changed. Well, America has changed since the Founding Fathers, and the world has changed since 1950s… so what?

Is the world irrelevant and democracy a failure now because it is different. (Women can vote now, OMG!) Anyways, blogging will not go away any time soon.

Look at Twitter, for example. A new evolution that I do not believe is a passing fad… because it is useful.

I wrote a couple articles about Karaoke back in 1992 or so, trying to determine if it was a fad. Looks like there is more karaoke than ever…

]]> By: Miss604 http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9409 Miss604 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:02:26 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9409 @ raincoaster... is it wrong that I'd kinda like to see that? (Godzilla Halloween costumes made out of cigarette papers”) @ raincoaster… is it wrong that I’d kinda like to see that? (Godzilla Halloween costumes made out of cigarette papers”)

]]> By: raincoaster http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9408 raincoaster Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:45:08 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9408 Does Wired need to linkbait? Well, let me ask you this: when was the last time you thought about linking to a story on Wired? I've been blogging since 2002 and I don't think I've ever linked to them. It's obvious linkbait. I love Paul. He incites like nobody's business. If he'd worked for Louis Riel we'd all be speaking French right now. But that doesn't mean that he's right, only that he's effective. There IS a lot of auto-swill out there in the blogosphere. That generates a demand for filters which get rid of blogspam, and Google and other search engines do a pretty decent job of this. It shouldn't concern you that when you blog about "Godzilla Halloween costumes made out of cigarette papers" there are eighteen thousand listings lower than you: they are spam. Do not let the spam distract you from what you do. It will never outrank a real blogger. Does Wired need to linkbait? Well, let me ask you this: when was the last time you thought about linking to a story on Wired? I’ve been blogging since 2002 and I don’t think I’ve ever linked to them. It’s obvious linkbait.

I love Paul. He incites like nobody’s business. If he’d worked for Louis Riel we’d all be speaking French right now. But that doesn’t mean that he’s right, only that he’s effective.

There IS a lot of auto-swill out there in the blogosphere. That generates a demand for filters which get rid of blogspam, and Google and other search engines do a pretty decent job of this. It shouldn’t concern you that when you blog about “Godzilla Halloween costumes made out of cigarette papers” there are eighteen thousand listings lower than you: they are spam. Do not let the spam distract you from what you do. It will never outrank a real blogger.

]]> By: The death of environmentalism? « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9407 The death of environmentalism? « Random Thoughts of a Student of the Environment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:14:03 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9407 [...] public policy issues. Tags: climate change, perceptions and beliefs trackback A recent post by Rebecca on “is blogging dead” and a comment by Darren on that particular post (echoed by other commentators) made me remember [...] [...] public policy issues. Tags: climate change, perceptions and beliefs trackback A recent post by Rebecca on “is blogging dead” and a comment by Darren on that particular post (echoed by other commentators) made me remember [...]

]]> By: Matthew Collinge http://www.miss604.com/2008/10/blogging-is-dead.html#comment-9406 Matthew Collinge Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:37:10 +0000 http://www.miss604.com/?p=4882#comment-9406 If blogs are dead, static sites must be extinct, and although many ought to be there are still good ones around. It is all evolving, and pretty quickly too. If blogs are dead, static sites must be extinct, and although many ought to be there are still good ones around. It is all evolving, and pretty quickly too.

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