Blogging is dead says Radio 4’s ‘Today Show’, Twitter’s the next thing.. yawn
According to the techies cited on the Today Show, it is. Why? Because the web is now stuffed full with faceless, automatically generated crap. I totally agree with that bit, though I disagree that blogging is dead.
Interestingly, blogging was discussed only from that egotistical point of view; all ‘me’ telling ‘my’ (hundreds of) friends what ‘I’m’ doing now. As far as I’m concerned, from that ego point of view, blogging never got born in the first place.
What nobody talked about in any depth was what blogging actually IS: a publishing platform you can use to create and reach an specific audience (if what you say has some use, interest or other value). Nothing about business, education or politics
Poor old John Humphries didn’t know what blogging was – or Twitter for that matter. Luckily he was helped out by his guests, a couple of thirty-somethings. You know that ultra-cool kind who embrace everything. Unlike teenagers who, like, just embrace the latest thing.
So is blogging dead?
Blogs-as-diaries were dead from the outset as far as I’m concerned. And blogs that exist just as gobbledegook loaded with AdSense Google ads should be.
