Comments on: Is Blogging Already Outdated? http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/25/is-blogging-already-outdated/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/25/is-blogging-already-outdated/comment-page-1/#comment-426625 Michael Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:44:00 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/25/is-blogging-already-outdated/#comment-426625 I think many blogging platforms have a high learning curve and unnecessarily difficult gates to crash. I joined Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and altho those, too, have the above, I already have unexpected contacts...in the first night, as it happens, on MySpace and Facebook. Blogging is getting dated. An interesting blog is hard to find. An interesting person who's willing to keep in touch with you is not. So social networking is the now. Who knows what's next? I think many blogging platforms have a high learning curve and unnecessarily difficult gates to crash. I joined Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, and altho those, too, have the above, I already have unexpected contacts…in the first night, as it happens, on MySpace and Facebook. Blogging is getting dated. An interesting blog is hard to find. An interesting person who’s willing to keep in touch with you is not. So social networking is the now. Who knows what’s next?

]]> By: Ontario Emperor http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/25/is-blogging-already-outdated/comment-page-1/#comment-426507 Ontario Emperor Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:55:15 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/25/is-blogging-already-outdated/#comment-426507 I read it differently - that blogging AS A TERM will become outdated. People will still blog, and microblog, and podcast, and videocast, and secondlife, and whatever else, and use an ever-widening array of tools to communicate. Or, another way to read it is that blogging as an action has become untrendy. Or, if Joe Exec says, "I blog!!!" the response will be "So what?" I read it differently – that blogging AS A TERM will become outdated. People will still blog, and microblog, and podcast, and videocast, and secondlife, and whatever else, and use an ever-widening array of tools to communicate.

Or, another way to read it is that blogging as an action has become untrendy. Or, if Joe Exec says, “I blog!!!” the response will be “So what?”

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