Blogging is dead they say. Move to Twitter, move to FriendFeed… Some bloggers are just lazy I think… I say long live blogging! Download the “WordPress Blogging” ebook now for free (or read on).

It’s easy to just write 140 character updates all day long. It’s easy to copy / paste a piece of text you have read somewhere and write your two line comment on it. If you’re too lazy or you find it too hard to write consistent blog articles that your targetted audience finds useful, maybe blogging is not for you. But that doesn’t mean that blogging is dead.

Twitter, FriendFeed etc. should in no way replace your existing communication channels like a website or a blog. You cannot get much across via social media. And with the speed and real-time of social media sites, your work there will very fast go into the lost archives and never be seen again.

There must be a balance between tweeting and blogging. Real-time social media and a blog work very well together and doing it right, it can help you establish a presence in your field and give