Comments on: Communicating Is Dead http://paulshort.com/strange/communicating-is-dead Where he writes about stuff Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tyme White http://paulshort.com/strange/communicating-is-dead/comment-page-1#comment-179 Tyme White Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:23:21 +0000 http://paulshort.com/?p=30#comment-179 When I hear "blogging is dead" I don't think of Twitter. I think of sites like Tumblr where the idea of what makes a blog entry changes. There are many people using Tumblr but for the most part, the idea of a blog entry is re-posting what has already been placed on the web. They call it reblogging. With one click, they have an "entry", call their site a "blog" and call themselves "bloggers". Previously, when people described themselves as a blogger, everyone had a general idea of what the person was talking about. Now, when someone calls himself or herself a blogger, they literally might not have written one original word on their blog. I think this is a natural shift. The old-school bloggers seem to be shifting into journalists and reporters. They are the ones making the quality content others reblog and share. The amount of blogs started each year will most likely decline as people who would have started blogs (and abandoned them) no longer feel the need to have a blog because they have other ways to communicate (sharing) via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc. I agree, communicating will never cease. People are communicating with people they never would have been able to before. I don't see that stopping any time soon. :) When I hear “blogging is dead” I don’t think of Twitter. I think of sites like Tumblr where the idea of what makes a blog entry changes. There are many people using Tumblr but for the most part, the idea of a blog entry is re-posting what has already been placed on the web. They call it reblogging. With one click, they have an “entry”, call their site a “blog” and call themselves “bloggers”. Previously, when people described themselves as a blogger, everyone had a general idea of what the person was talking about. Now, when someone calls himself or herself a blogger, they literally might not have written one original word on their blog.

I think this is a natural shift. The old-school bloggers seem to be shifting into journalists and reporters. They are the ones making the quality content others reblog and share. The amount of blogs started each year will most likely decline as people who would have started blogs (and abandoned them) no longer feel the need to have a blog because they have other ways to communicate (sharing) via Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.

I agree, communicating will never cease. People are communicating with people they never would have been able to before. I don’t see that stopping any time soon. :)

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]]> By: Scrivs http://paulshort.com/strange/communicating-is-dead/comment-page-1#comment-174 Scrivs Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:16:28 +0000 http://paulshort.com/?p=30#comment-174 Without knowing the specific article you are talking about that claims blogging is dead, I think many people like to make the claim because of the changes that occur in the blogging scene. Sure it isn't the same as it was 5 years ago, but it really isn't any better or worse. You can still find a large number of people taking the time and expressing their thoughts and opinions in long blog form. You can still find a huge number of blogs that value intellectual discourse. Just because so much attention is being placed on Twitter and some of your favorite bloggers might be focusing on it, it doesn't mean that blogging is dead. People will always need a place to write, just like people will always need something to read. Radios were supposed to kill books, TVs were supposed to kill radio. Every year a new form of communication is invented and rarely does it kill its predecessor, but it does need to make room for itself. It can't do that without some people putting less focus on the previous medium. Many of those people that used to blog might be the same people focusing on videos for YouTube. Sure there may be a day in the future where people stop writing, but that isn't now and it won't be any time soon. Without knowing the specific article you are talking about that claims blogging is dead, I think many people like to make the claim because of the changes that occur in the blogging scene. Sure it isn’t the same as it was 5 years ago, but it really isn’t any better or worse. You can still find a large number of people taking the time and expressing their thoughts and opinions in long blog form. You can still find a huge number of blogs that value intellectual discourse.

Just because so much attention is being placed on Twitter and some of your favorite bloggers might be focusing on it, it doesn’t mean that blogging is dead. People will always need a place to write, just like people will always need something to read. Radios were supposed to kill books, TVs were supposed to kill radio. Every year a new form of communication is invented and rarely does it kill its predecessor, but it does need to make room for itself. It can’t do that without some people putting less focus on the previous medium.

Many of those people that used to blog might be the same people focusing on videos for YouTube. Sure there may be a day in the future where people stop writing, but that isn’t now and it won’t be any time soon.

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