Micro-blogging killed my blog
Looking over my sporadic posting habits of the last year and I realized that almost all of my linking to news articles, photos, and videos has moved to micro-blogging sites like Twitter and Facebook stream posts. I post pretty regularly on both of those sites, but only post to my actual blog when there's too much to cover in 140 characters or less, or when I feel guilty that I haven't posted to my blog in awhile. Sure, less time these days is a factor, but overall convenience is a greater factor. I wonder if this is a growing trend among personal bloggers -- have more people who blog for fun abandoned the long blog format?
Something is lost in micro-blogging. Before, I would usually post a link and then describe why I thought the link was interesting, or maybe combine several links in a post and describe a connection that may have been overlooked. Now, it's just a link. I may offer some commentary if someone responds, but that's rare. A typical post is usually just the link, a snippet, a thumbnail maybe (or not), but nothing about what I find interesting about the link. If this is a growing trend among all personal bloggers, blogging itself has lost a certain unique quality that made it special.
The long personal blog format, at least for me, will probably end up being personal internal stories not found 'out there' in the world, where you can simply link it off, because these are things that can't be covered in a short status update. Unfortunately, they are harder to write, require more thought, and as a result come with less frequency.
Frequency and the vitality of blogs are intrinsically related. People simply don't read blogs that are updated a few times a year. I could post my stats to demonstrate this fact, but my point is that statistically you're not likely to see that post anyway ; ) And without readers, of course, the blog is dead.
Well c'est la vie. As Kerouac said, "scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy." Like a spirit board spelling out nonsensical messages from the beyond, my dead blog will probably continue to be updated now and then. I'm just not going to deny that it is, in fact, dead.
Hey, that's a cool title for a blog! "My Dead Blog". Feel free to steal it.
Something is lost in micro-blogging. Before, I would usually post a link and then describe why I thought the link was interesting, or maybe combine several links in a post and describe a connection that may have been overlooked. Now, it's just a link. I may offer some commentary if someone responds, but that's rare. A typical post is usually just the link, a snippet, a thumbnail maybe (or not), but nothing about what I find interesting about the link. If this is a growing trend among all personal bloggers, blogging itself has lost a certain unique quality that made it special.
The long personal blog format, at least for me, will probably end up being personal internal stories not found 'out there' in the world, where you can simply link it off, because these are things that can't be covered in a short status update. Unfortunately, they are harder to write, require more thought, and as a result come with less frequency.
Frequency and the vitality of blogs are intrinsically related. People simply don't read blogs that are updated a few times a year. I could post my stats to demonstrate this fact, but my point is that statistically you're not likely to see that post anyway ; ) And without readers, of course, the blog is dead.
Well c'est la vie. As Kerouac said, "scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy." Like a spirit board spelling out nonsensical messages from the beyond, my dead blog will probably continue to be updated now and then. I'm just not going to deny that it is, in fact, dead.
Hey, that's a cool title for a blog! "My Dead Blog". Feel free to steal it.
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