socialmedian: Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams?

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Source: Web Strategy by Jeremiah

Jun 26, 2009

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Top Bloggers Spend Less Time Blogging

I’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations. Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I just learned that Edelman’s top blogger Steve Rubel has retired his traditional blog, and it’s now a life stream, which aggregates content from any source. Of course, I don’t need to mention that many of the top 100 blogs all look like mainstream media, with a team of writers, photographers, and editors.

It seems as if blogging is becoming old hat, or at least evolving into something smaller, faster, and more portable. I’m with Louis Gray, I’m not going to give up my blog, instead, I think of it as the hub of content, and the rest of the information I aggregate (notice the Twitter bar up top and the Friendfeed integration below). To me, joining the conversation is certainly important, but it doesn’t mean the hub (or corporate website) goes a

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Comments (3)

P0ps,

Jun 27, 2009

put your information on the web not just on your website. It is not about location anymore, it is about flow.

Tweric,

Jun 29, 2009

Life-streams might be the new journal-style blog. But people who are marketing themselves as consultants or authors still need a more robust blog with posts that read like articles. Once they get (internet) famous, rich, or lazy, then the life-stream only presence can suffice.