Comments on: Is Blogging Becoming Obsolete?

By: jfc

jfc — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:58:11 +0000

Hi Lissie,

You really went digging back in my archives. This one was written before I figured a few things out thanks to Vic and Griz.

Anyway, I think the “what I had for breakfast” thing has moved on to Twitter these days. It’s about 80% babble, 19% spam and 1% useful information.

By: Travel Over 30s

Travel Over 30s — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:48:29 +0000

I hardly know anyone in REAL life who has a blog. I think blogging has a long way to go- though on the other hand its becoming more professional - less what I had for breakfast but more focussed on what he reader wants

By: trade show booths

trade show booths — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:51:44 +0000

hi Frank,
Saw this post title on your “random post” feature. Great title. Anyway, I sure hope blogging isn’t obsolete since I just finally convinced myself to start a blog (at least pretty soon). Leave it to me to miss the boat…
But to answer your question, yes, blogs will be obsolete when paper is obsolete. The internet is here and it will constantly change and evolve, but it is here, and it is here to stay!
~ Steve, purveyor of portable trade show booths and soon-to-be-fellow-blogger-I-think…

By: Rookwood Pottery Bowls

Rookwood Pottery Bowls — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:39:12 +0000

I know I started two blogs last year and now I cannot find them. Even if I could find them, I don’t know the username and password, so they are truly dead. Maybe I could find them over at ontheblogheap? This year I am doing better. I actually know all my user names and passwords.

By: aannttiiiittnnaa

aannttiiiittnnaa — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:53:31 +0000

Looks like we share an interest in DEAD BLOGS check out my dedicated site, for all the abandoned blogs that you can handle, documented using wry humour blended seamlessly with sincere sentiment. We are the self proclaimed ‘Official home of the certified dead blog’:

“BLOGS THAT DIED TOO YOUNG”
http://ontheblogheap.blogspot.com/

By: jfc

jfc — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:40:50 +0000

Thanks Chuck,

I think that people that want to just express themselves and be social will tend to gravitate toward more immediate media, such as Twitter, Facebook or YouTube. As I mentioned, I don’t really consider them blogging.

I think the big attraction to blogging is not only in expressing yourself but in attracting an audience that listens to you expressing yourself. While this may not be for money, it will usually have some motive attached to it.

By: chuck norris dude

chuck norris dude — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:11:21 +0000

It’s hard to see that blogs will die anytime soon. Whatsoever, they will only grow in numbers. Everybody wants to express themselves on the blog and a big number of people really don’t care about earning some money from it.

Maybe the number of people who blog strictly for making quick money out of it will diminish, but the blogging as a whole will be here for a long time.

By: jfc

jfc — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:07:58 +0000

Hi Ivy,

Wow! You should have made your own post from that one.

Overall I think we’ll see a lot of blending between different forms of blogging and social media. As you indicated, anything that sells products well will make money.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:02:11 +0000

Its hard to imagine that blogging will be dying out for a few reasons.

1. We are now moving into the phase of viral marketing via online marketing media. Hollywood, Record labels, and even national tourism companies are now putting their advertising dollars into viral videos instead of traditional advertising.

2. Businesses are starting to catch on that blogging can boost their traffic and sales by over 100% and more. As blogging becomes more competitive, blog owners will begin to start selling a product / service for more profitability. Problogger and Copyblogger are great examples. While they have kept their main sites free of advertising, they have branched into a variety of other online businesses selling content blogs and Teaching Sells.

3. I have mentioned in a post before that blogging will not become obsolete because internet giants are ensuring they don’t go away for their profitability. Google for one. The bulk of their income is generated from Google Adwords. They own sites like Blogger and YouTube and are aggressively buying over social communities. They have a lot invested in the business of blogging, and will keep devising new technologies / programs to keep it alive as long as they can.

By: jfc

jfc — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:22:24 +0000

Hi RT,

I do think that the personal aspect will stick with blogs since that’s what sets them apart from other media. What I see leaving the scene are “What Me and My Cat Had for Supper” posts. These will end up on social networking sites.