They're just trying to be sensationalistic.
To each his own. If you prefer the blog format, by all means keep blogging. If you prefer twitter, go do that..
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#12And stop writing books people, it's so 1900. Surely you can convey everything you'd write about in a series of 140 char twitter messages.
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#13A dissenting opinion: Writing a blog helps you organize your thoughts, improves your writing skills, and teaches you to make good arguments (and recognize bad ones). None of that requires having an audience. At least an audience larger than your friends and coworkers. If you like to write, don't stop writing because it's not "where the buzz is at". There's more to life than following trends.
Well said. In addition to that, I use my blog to host content I hope people will find via google, like how-tos or coding gotchas. I'm not going to post a coding trick to my facebook account, even if it has more active readers.
Exactly. Some content, like status updates, is perfect for Twitter or Facebook, but this article seems to assume that that's all anyone uses blogs for.
Please god say it ain't so. I would like to think that people who keep blogs (at least the subset thereof that also read Wired) tend to write more interesting things in them, and I can't imagine that being replaced by 140 characters (this notwithstanding: http://twitter.com/_why/statuses/881768089 )
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#14They're just trying to be sensationalistic. To each his own. If you prefer the blog format, by all means keep blogging. If you prefer twitter, go do that..
exactly what I was thinking... Soo, just because some people stop blogging and move to other platforms everyone should? Screw that.
Of course, if you intend to use your blog to make some dinero and pay some of the bills, it's probably not going to work... but neither will twitter or facebook for that matter. If you just want to express yourself, use whatever you want and whatever your public will use.
And can't you have a blog AND twitter, facebook, etc?
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#15A dissenting opinion: Writing a blog helps you organize your thoughts, improves your writing skills, and teaches you to make good arguments (and recognize bad ones). None of that requires having an audience. At least an audience larger than your friends and coworkers. If you like to write, don't stop writing because it's not "where the buzz is at". There's more to life than following trends.
You can also write in your blog for your great-great-great-grandkids -- family that hasn't been born yet. Or you can write as a way of organizing book material. Or you can write as a way to keep and share memories with just a few people.
Blogging is an internal thing first, external second.
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#16Gary V. had great advice: "people ask what social networking tools I should use ... twitter, jaiku, etc. The answer? Use all of them"
There is nothing exclusive about twitter & blogging. You'll note those with the biggest personal brands and most followers are often bloggers. This is because facebook and twitter are both bad at content/person discovery.
Blogging is a good way to let people find out who you are.
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#17So a guy who presumably makes his living on being a professional blogger is lamenting the lost of the personal touch in blogs... hmm
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#18writing a blog can demonstrate your subject matter expertise to investors, employees, and business partners. philmichaelson.com has very small readership, but the leads its generated have already been worth the effort.
Twitter, Flickr, and Facebook don't allow you to share the same length and quality of content outside your friend network
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#19And stop writing books people, it's so 1900. Surely you can convey everything you'd write about in a series of 140 char twitter messages.
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Well said. In addition to that, I use my blog to host content I hope people will find via google, like how-tos or coding gotchas. I'm not going to post a coding trick to my facebook account, even if it has more active readers.
Exactly. Some content, like status updates, is perfect for Twitter or Facebook, but this article seems to assume that that's all anyone uses blogs for. Please god say it ain't so. I would like to think that people who keep blogs (at least the subset thereof that also read Wired) tend to write more interesting things in them, and I can't imagine that being replaced by 140 characters (this notwithstanding: http://twitt…
If this is actually a ploy to get pointless blogs out of Google's index and hidden behind Facebook's garden wall, then I'm all for it!