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Breaking: This whole blogging thing is melting

Submitted by Louisgray from Google Reader

Oct 21, 2008

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Wow. All in one day, I learn that the Facebook platform is dead, Blogs are passé and RSS is only used by 11% of people (or some percentage of those who know what it is).

Here’s my response: 1. I have no idea if the Facebook platform is alive or dead. I’ve got left-over MREs from Y2K, however, so I think I can survive its demise, if it should occur. 2. Asking people if they use RSS is like asking people what size air filter goes in their car. RSS is now entrenched in the infrastructure of the sharing web. It fuels widgets, it automates blog posts, it enables all sorts of gizmos and thingees that the average web user would never recognize as RSS. Nor should they. Web users should click on a button that says, “bring me information about this topic or from this source.” How it gets delivered will probably involve RSS, but who the heck cares.

And about that post that is transparent flame bait, the one about blogs being so 2004. Here’s a surprise for you: I agree. I started blogging in 2000, before anyone normal thought it was alive. I’m fortunate, because had I wa

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Comments (12)

Britneymason,

Oct 22, 2008

Nice Post! Well Said!

Willem,

Oct 23, 2008

cleaver

Fixator,

Oct 23, 2008

Thank you, thank you for putting it straight.

Thomaspower,

Oct 23, 2008

inevitable too much information for the poor ole reader.

Thomaspower,

Oct 23, 2008

inevitable too much information for the poor ole reader.

Mvndrvrt,

Oct 24, 2008

Bullet points should be shot!

Michael

Vincent Wright,

Oct 24, 2008

I generate a lot of stuff to talk about on my own but, boy, do I wish I'd said a gem or two like these two gems:

"2. When I started blogging, I didn’t know blogs were going to become a mass-media platform that have all sorts of metrics that measure eyeballs and incoming links and who’s on top.

3. When I started blogging, I didn’t know that people were going to get paid to tell others how to write blog posts and their first advice was going to be, “You should write every headline with phrases like “how to” and “three reasons why” and every post should be in bullet points."