Wired Proclaims Blogs "Dead": "They're Just Resting," Bloggers Claim

I guess my work here is done. I mean, if Wired says blogs are over, what am I still doing here? I wonder what I can do with all the time I used to spend blogging...maybe I should get certified as a yoga instructor or try to devote my time to protesting stuff. Or go to rabbinical school. Or write that screenplay that everyone assumes I've already written and moved here to pursue.

I'm not sure blogs are dead in the world at large. (Perhaps they're just resting. Or they're pining for the fjords (see clip below). I certainly still believe that they can be of use in educational, nonprofit and other environments, and the self-publishing ease that the blog platform presents will certainly continue to be a tool of use. But I guess what Wired is saying is that there are now additional platforms that allow people to publish their text, image and video content, and that blogs as a whole aren't necessary and are now yielding to whatever the next big tech thing is supposed to be.

Wired says that sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook "have since made publishing pics and video as easy as typing text." And it's true. But I'm still a fan of blogging. What about you?

Comments

[VJ]

I was forever mystified by this. I could never get into the bit as a 'youngster', knowing as I did that there were no parrots indigenous Norway! Everyone knew this too. Brazilian Blues, sure maybe. Norwegians of almost any stripe 'pining for the Fjords'? Just bloody unlikely all around. So there I sat, unmoved and completely mystified. It takes awhile for the slapstick to take over to save the bit to my mind too. That's why it has to go on so long too.

But yeah. All blogs have a natural life span. Then you reinvent them. Mommy blogs from 'singleton' blogs. Married blogs from single blogs. Divorced blogs from single blogs. The only way for blogs to completely disappear is when you're just too busy or lazy to take after them. Or too happy & content. They die quick deaths from occasional bouts of contentment & complacency.

But if you're protesting something? You'll need a blog. Complaining about 'stuff? Blogging will help you connect with other disaffected denizens. Have something to say that's not exactly 'publishable' in most main stream forums? You'll be mostly blogging or using obscure/alt news websites to put forth your output. Ditto for any sort of 'non orthodox' opinions that may threaten the powers that be. And yes strangely enough, if it's not 'elite' opinion or writing that tends to agree with same? Most of this stuff will be published, if written at all on websites and blogs. Most of the outpouring of humanity will be here. Not on the leaves of dead trees. It's ever thus. Anonymous was the wisdom carried by the oral traditions of centuries past. Now it's available to be read. Sometimes Even on dead blogs too! Cheers & Good Luck, 'VJ'

[What War Zone???]

Are we going to find out in 5 years that Friendster is back in?

I think some people are employed by magazines just to do these "What's In, What's Out" comparisons. I say Wired is out, chumus is in.

Benji

[Coelecanth]

I think as long as people have something to say, blogs will stay. Mind you, not because of me. One post every three months does not make a blog, :)