Shooting at Bubbles - Latest Comments in The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

StevenHodson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:21:02 -0000

that is one of the problems of answering comments via email :) I forget sometimes that the one I am replying to may actually be a reply to someone elses comment.

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

Lynne d Johnson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:27:02 -0000

@StevenHodson I think perhaps pB was referring to my comment on your post instead of your post. It looks like an inline reply directly to my comment. Seems he/she has a problem with my calling FriendFeed FF, and it appears he also believes I have no command of the English language. In that case, looks like I better hunt for a new career as I've been a writer and journalist for over 15 years. Though I know that doesn't really mean anything.

Anyway, I thought this was an extremely thoughtful post. It gave me lots to think about.

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

StevenHodson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:10:08 -0000

Being new doesn't equate to not making it. In some ways this period could be a second coming for good blogs as older ones fade away either from the owners getting tired of blogging or they move to newer and different ways to communicate.

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

Psychiatry101 — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:58:27 -0000

I guess my relatively new blog will die.
Your technorati ranking here does not match your ranking at the website.Its 421 actually.

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

StevenHodson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:58:07 -0000

Sorry it was hard to follow pB .. maybe I'd better hunt some English books after all :)

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

StevenHodson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:57:06 -0000

Thanks Mark and like you I know I will keep on blogging because I really enjoy doing it.

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

StevenHodson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:56:09 -0000

Oh sure John ... get my curiosity up LOL

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

John Furrier — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:16:16 -0000

Interesting just as I'm starting to add advertising sponsorshp to my blog.. I think that it won't be weeding out but repositioning of the value is for blogging. If advertsiing is the sunlight then yes CPM based ads are nuclear winter... the sun is a new add model not CPM based..

My ads coming on my blog are not cpm based..

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

Mark Evans — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:57:11 -0000

Steven,

I agree with your thesis. What I sense, especially among people have been actively blogging for awhile, is digital fatigue or perhaps digital distraction. My sense many of these people still post on a regular basis because it's a force of habit; not because they love doing it. And, as you point out, there are growing options available. Personally, I don't see my enthusiasm waning. If anyone, I'm more determined not to write what everyone else is writing simply because it's not as much fun.

Mark

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

gregorylent — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:09:54 -0000

as you say blogging may change, heck everything changes all the time ... but conversing wont stop, the tools to enable it to happen more fluidly will continue to develop ... and the requirements to be smart and engaging will remain ...

what will come is this, just like you can walk into a coffee shop and join any conversation at any table, this will happen upon going to a single website ... mine, maybe, if i can just get teh software going...

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

pB — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:42:07 -0000

Twitter & friendfeed are easily enough mashed back to a blog running on the right platform, and the flickr api is flexible enough to deal with it too. These are web 2.0 to the core.

AFAIC FF will forever mean firefox, using it as an abbreviation for friendfeed confused the crap out of me for a moment.

PS while not a grammar/spelling nazi I found that post really difficult to read - had to concentrate hard and tried 3 times, worth it in the end though.

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

Dick Smoke — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:49:45 -0000

Including yours, dick-smoke.

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

joe hunkins — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:34:11 -0000

Steve I think you are *way* premature with this prediction. Although the number of tech blogs is high, I think we'll see huge growth in small biz blogging, local news, and kid bloggers - none of which have approached even a small fraction of their potential numbers.

Re: The Great Blog Weeding of 2008

Lynne d Johnson — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:05:46 -0000

I think overall, FF, has revealed what the future of conversation (and blogging) can be. All these streams of conversations intersecting at one point. The only problem with FF though is that the comments don't get distributed. Sure, back to Twitter, but what about back to your blog, or your Flickr photostream?

I realize that the point here is about the changing nature of blogging and what will happen, I just think bloggers are going to continue to adopt and adapt to these newer forms of social media until something sticks -- and they'll continue to do both and continue to find ways to reach various reading publics.

Ahhh, and just as I write this, I take it back. I see you've managed to bring in pieces of FF here. I stand corrected on one point, but I'm still sticking to my guns on others.