Is Blogging Dead?
I’m writing this post based on my reaction to an article I was directed to on CNN Money titled “The End of Blogging.” With that said…
Hell no blogging isn’t dead.
Blogging, in my opinion, is a constant of the internet — much like message boards. Before blogging was ever concieved as a term, there were online journals or online diaries or web logs. These ‘web logs’, as they were called back then, recieved a lot of flak, much of the same flak Twitter is receiving now. The most common complaints were, “I don’t want to know what’s going on in your life” or “Why would I want to know what HE/SHE has to say?”
Fast forward to now.
Technorati indexes over 133 million blogs and tracks almost one million blog posts every 24 hours. With those stats, it’s safe to say blogging isn’t dead.
As I said, blogging is one of those constants just like message boards. Speaking of message boards, the ex-COO of MySpace just recieved 10 million in funding for his new project. TechCrunch reports:
What do we know so far about the company? Not a whole lot except that Redpoint and August are rumored to be “very excited” about it. The company is supposedly targeting the message board/Internet forum space with technology that aggregates content and serves advertising against it. Real time search may be part of the business plan as well.
Well look at that. A message board startup getting crazy funding. I rest my case.
Do you have insight I’ve over looked or do you have something extra to add? Please comment below.
