Comments on: The report of blogging's death is an exaggeration http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/ Poorly designed blog WLTM content for social media, football and general waffle Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:21:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jaycruz http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-228 jaycruz Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:43:04 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-228 The recent "death of blogging" blog posts all started when Jason Calacanis retired from blogging. I think it's a cycle that happens every couple of months or so, when new web tools come out and ironically, bloggers blog about the death of blogging. :) The recent “death of blogging” blog posts all started when Jason Calacanis retired from blogging. I think it’s a cycle that happens every couple of months or so, when new web tools come out and ironically, bloggers blog about the death of blogging. :)

]]> By: Dirty South Twit | the POLSKI blog http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Dirty South Twit | the POLSKI blog Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:34:51 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-226 [...] who live outside London (WELL outside London) or outside the UK, but three south Londoners, Lolly, Gary and Richard have just created a new social group called Dirty South [...] [...] who live outside London (WELL outside London) or outside the UK, but three south Londoners, Lolly, Gary and Richard have just created a new social group called Dirty South [...]

]]> By: The creation of the Dirty South Twit « Dirty South Twit http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-227 The creation of the Dirty South Twit « Dirty South Twit Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:42:29 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-227 [...] of the Dirty South Twit 17Nov08 The Dirty South Twit was born in a comments box thanks to Gary.  Unable to locate the lost comment, the conversation shifted to Twitter. A few twits later, the [...] [...] of the Dirty South Twit 17Nov08 The Dirty South Twit was born in a comments box thanks to Gary.  Unable to locate the lost comment, the conversation shifted to Twitter. A few twits later, the [...]

]]> By: This Blogging Thing! http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-225 This Blogging Thing! Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:25:31 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-225 [...] have been far and wide, my best being Gary Andrews assertion that the obituary was more of an attention grabbing stunt, more like the blogger’s attempt at a [...] [...] have been far and wide, my best being Gary Andrews assertion that the obituary was more of an attention grabbing stunt, more like the blogger’s attempt at a [...]

]]> By: Blogs are stronger, better and faster than ever! « Blog Till you Drop! http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Blogs are stronger, better and faster than ever! « Blog Till you Drop! Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:02:03 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-224 [...] looks like quite a few members of the blogosphere disagree with Paul. I even  wonder whether this article wasn’t [...] [...] looks like quite a few members of the blogosphere disagree with Paul. I even  wonder whether this article wasn’t [...]

]]> By: Rumours of blogging’s death are exaggerated, but not greatly so « doctorvee http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Rumours of blogging’s death are exaggerated, but not greatly so « doctorvee Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:09:57 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-223 [...] But saying today that this shift to other services like Twitter is a sign that blogging is dead is just as daft as saying in 2004 that blogging threatened the death of the mainstream media. It would be deeply ironic if the once vibrant and hip blogging scene were to itself become threatened by new technology. But it won’t. The world evolves and blogging simply has to evolve with it, just as the mainstream media evolved with the advent of blogging. Rather than dying, blogging is maturing, as Gary Andrews notes. [...] [...] But saying today that this shift to other services like Twitter is a sign that blogging is dead is just as daft as saying in 2004 that blogging threatened the death of the mainstream media. It would be deeply ironic if the once vibrant and hip blogging scene were to itself become threatened by new technology. But it won’t. The world evolves and blogging simply has to evolve with it, just as the mainstream media evolved with the advent of blogging. Rather than dying, blogging is maturing, as Gary Andrews notes. [...]

]]> By: Lolly http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Lolly Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:03:05 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-222 Interesting post Gary. I read something similar in a French magazine a couple of years ago! Blogging is evolving and it's here to stay! We will soon see threaded commenting (similar to Flickr) which will allow a more interactive and thorough conversations via comments boxes. There also seems to be small, yet major changes with blogrolls - blog lists (Blogger feature). The Blog List improves on the Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets. Go here for an e.g. http://icecream4everyone.blogspot.com/ Yes, I do agree that there are far too many dead URLs out there, and an awful lot of blogs littering the Internet, but I think that changes must be driven by search engines and information needs to be classified in a different way... Interesting post Gary. I read something similar in a French magazine a couple of years ago!

Blogging is evolving and it’s here to stay!

We will soon see threaded commenting (similar to Flickr) which will allow a more interactive and thorough conversations via comments boxes.

There also seems to be small, yet major changes with blogrolls – blog lists (Blogger feature). The Blog List improves on the Link List page element by using blogs’ RSS and Atom feeds to show update times, post titles, and snippets. Go here for an e.g. http://icecream4everyone.blogspot.com/

Yes, I do agree that there are far too many dead URLs out there, and an awful lot of blogs littering the Internet, but I think that changes must be driven by search engines and information needs to be classified in a different way…

]]> By: Nosemonkey http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Nosemonkey Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:48:32 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-221 It's also worth noting that experience of blogging is increasingly essential for aspiring journalists. Although one-off pieces for the online market still (generally speaking) pay less than print, there are far more opportunities for regular, long-term paid online work - and it's far easier to get into. Plus online editorial work - at the moment at least, largely due to a shortage of experienced/competent web editors - pays far better than print. Pretty much every online editorial job I've picked up over the last few years has been helped by the blogging (a few of them I've got as a direct result of the blog), and most interviewers pick up on it. It's proved far more useful than four years working on a student magazine while at university ever did. Plus, of course, there's the technical side of things. Blogging software remains one of the most simple and cost-effective ways of setting up a ready-optimised website - especially one that's easy to maintain. As I explained to my dear old mum, if you can send an email, you can post to a blog. That simplicity means that blogs are unlikely ever to die. And in any case, the old meme that there's some kind of "true" form of blogging has always been a myth. There were never any rules and never any blogging ethos. That was the whole point. If some types of blogging - especially the online diary types of "what I did today" - are dying out now that Facebook and the like offer simpler methods of boring all your friends with trivia, then that just means that the medium is evolving to be dominated by other forms of content. And that's all blogging is - content. To say that blogging is dying is to say that content is dying, which is patently a nonsense. It’s also worth noting that experience of blogging is increasingly essential for aspiring journalists. Although one-off pieces for the online market still (generally speaking) pay less than print, there are far more opportunities for regular, long-term paid online work – and it’s far easier to get into. Plus online editorial work – at the moment at least, largely due to a shortage of experienced/competent web editors – pays far better than print. Pretty much every online editorial job I’ve picked up over the last few years has been helped by the blogging (a few of them I’ve got as a direct result of the blog), and most interviewers pick up on it. It’s proved far more useful than four years working on a student magazine while at university ever did.

Plus, of course, there’s the technical side of things. Blogging software remains one of the most simple and cost-effective ways of setting up a ready-optimised website – especially one that’s easy to maintain. As I explained to my dear old mum, if you can send an email, you can post to a blog. That simplicity means that blogs are unlikely ever to die.

And in any case, the old meme that there’s some kind of “true” form of blogging has always been a myth. There were never any rules and never any blogging ethos. That was the whole point. If some types of blogging – especially the online diary types of “what I did today” – are dying out now that Facebook and the like offer simpler methods of boring all your friends with trivia, then that just means that the medium is evolving to be dominated by other forms of content. And that’s all blogging is – content. To say that blogging is dying is to say that content is dying, which is patently a nonsense.

]]> By: Gary Andrews http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Gary Andrews Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:11:17 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-220 Kat: Yeah, my initial thought was: "Ooh, controversy. He's doing it for the hits and to get a reaction." On the other hand, it did provide a lot of food for thought when rebutting it, so maybe it served some sort of purpose in crystalising a few thoughts. Kerry: Yes, again, definitely! If I was blogging to make money, I'd have taken to sitting outside Google's offices with a sign saying "will blog for food" a long time ago. It's not about the money (although that'd be nice) or the ranking, or the respect , unless the blogger is really egocentric. I do this because I enjoy it :) Kat: Yeah, my initial thought was: “Ooh, controversy. He’s doing it for the hits and to get a reaction.” On the other hand, it did provide a lot of food for thought when rebutting it, so maybe it served some sort of purpose in crystalising a few thoughts.

Kerry: Yes, again, definitely! If I was blogging to make money, I’d have taken to sitting outside Google’s offices with a sign saying “will blog for food” a long time ago. It’s not about the money (although that’d be nice) or the ranking, or the respect , unless the blogger is really egocentric. I do this because I enjoy it :)

]]> By: Katherine Hannaford http://www.garyandrews.net/2008/10/22/the-report-of-bloggings-death-is-an-exaggeration/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Katherine Hannaford Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:09:30 +0000 http://garyandrews.wordpress.com/?p=554#comment-219 Considering Boutin is a Valleywag writer, it's fairly obvious he was doing it for the kicks. And page views, as a writer under Denton's thumb knows all too much about. Considering Boutin is a Valleywag writer, it’s fairly obvious he was doing it for the kicks. And page views, as a writer under Denton’s thumb knows all too much about.

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