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Submitted by A F from blog

Oct 22, 2008

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While clicking around the web the other day, I found an article on Wired discussing why blogging is dead. Immediate thoughts of "man, are they dead wrong" stormed through my head before I had even read the article. Reading it however revealed that the author had some good points. While the "Blogging is dead" mantra is sensationalism, I am starting to agree (somewhat).

I am by no means a professional blogger. Lack of advertising on the afpr blog, and more notably my lack of good grammar prove that! But what started out as an online journal of my random thoughts and comments, has now made it into the top 1% of all Social Media blogs. Now just when all my hard work promoting AFPR.com is starting to attract traffic, I am starting to think...why bother?

I have another blog I did not even know about. It is powered by a commenting startup called Disqus . Disqus while not ubiquitous across the blogosphere is used more and more often by more blogs as their commenting system. Now, whenever I leave a comment, the original blog author (or anyone for that matter) ca ...Read the full article

Comments (5)

Barcelonaphotoblog,

Oct 22, 2008

Oh, the article about the death of blogging!. I just read it today and left a comment. He had some good points but it was clearly sensationalist and may harm the feelings of millions who still blog from a modest personal blog. Somebody recommended it to me this morning so I figure it must be gaining a lot of buzz, since I am in Spain and this was Wired Magazine. As I said there, it is not the same to say that blogging is changing that launching sensationalist prophecies. The future will tell. By the way, thanks for the add. I will keep Disqus in mind.

A F,

Oct 22, 2008

I agree...the whole topic is very "sensationalised" ... the only point I was making is that tools like disqus (pretty certain there are others), like socialmedian, etc make the idea of a blog being a static location obsolete... This is the link to MY disqus comments http://disqus.com/people/AndyFinkle/#main

I believe there is likely more stuff there than on my real blog itself!!!

Rah33ls,

Oct 23, 2008

apart from the tech echo-chamber, blogging never really caught the imagination of consumers. It's simply, a hassle, too time consuming and feel too mundane to write about. Lifestreaming seems a lot more consumer friendly. Easy and less time consuming.

Gregbd,

Nov 13, 2008

Status of blogging and how conversations are moving everywhere is something I need to think about more - certainly has potential. Perhaps blogs become the "place" for foundation content and the conversations move o twitter, socialmedian, discus etc.

Courane01,

Nov 13, 2008

The integration of blogging into Facebook notes, short links to Twitter, and integrating MyBlogLog is actually enabling a better following. More people are catching on to RSS readers, and joining in. I find the exact opposite to be true.