so blogging is old skool now according to wired…
i tend to think i’m vaguely up to date but now not only am i a luddite not on facebook, i’ve never got round to twitter either let alone any of the other platforms. i simply don’t have time in my life…
the web is changing that’s for sure and people are finding multiple platforms for self publishing content, conversation, sharing in networks with friends and wider and so on – i.e. particpation. but there are a huge number of pathways for participation. and blogs and flickr suit me pretty well with the occasional video or article thrown in somewhere. but i’m feeling the pressure to meet jenny for a coffee to try and catch up a bit!
actually one of the comments on her post makes the most sense to me in response to this article where richard says
i think you’ve got your central platform, which is your content centre,
foundation, whether you’re a vlogger, blogger, podcaster, whatever,
then you have your presences around them. i’ve started to call these
presences around the hub, a social aura, the aura grows out your
content across the social media.
It’s interesting you say you don’t have time for ‘twitter and any of the other platforms’.
One of the reasons I blog less than I tweet (etc) is because blogging take up so much more time than that other stuff!
If one has a story to tell, then one needs to use all available means to reach the widest audience. This means using all forms: SN, Tweating, vlogging, and SMS. It is the mix, the relationship among the mix, that is the challenge. So I suggest that you measure everything that you do and see what gives you the most traction. I know my 13 year-old doesn’t use email at all. My company, Veeple, is here to ‘step it up’ by making anything in a video clickable, so one can dive deep if they choose to do so. Immersion!
@sbroomfield – I think it’s more of a case of using all _appropriate_ means than all available means.
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It’s fairly inevitable that after the meteoric rise of blogs over recent years that other tools would appear and seem to challenge blogs’ dominance. Over the longer term I suspect we’ll see it as a balancing out.
Twitter/jaiku/facebook statuses (as distinct from facebook as a whole) have a quite different set of strengths from blogs. For quick ‘how I am’ updates, link recommendations, or short conversations, twitter’s great. I suspect that tools like that will mean we see a lot less “what I did today” blogs.
But for longer-form thinking, ideas that need more nuance, etc. then the flexibility of more traditional blogging is great. And of course there’s a lot of space for things to spill over from place to place — many of us write blog entries inspired by tweets or tweet about blog entries.
And like Jenny, I find that keeping up and engaging with twitter is a lot less work than keeping up with and writing blogs, but I know that’s partly because I have twitterific running all the time. If my computer time was spent in bursts, perhaps RSS would still dominate my attention?
Wired itself has been old school for years now, its advertorial virtually indistinguishable from its advertising, sadly sold out to corporations, so it’s in a fine position to comment on this. “Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths.” – could be a comment on that (once noteworthy, now very Tired) magazine.
I started using Twitter because I didn’t have the time to blog. Either that or I don’t have anything to say worth more than 140 characters…
Hi Jonny
I actually deactivated my facebook account this week, and I must admit that my blog has gone eerily quiet in recent months. I can’t keep up…and I’m starting not to care. Conversely, I have been playing more guitar with my mates on the deck (beer in hand) and loving it!
Maybe I’m a Luddite too, but I’m finding myself hungry for what I consider real and authentic relationship.
Hey, you might be interested in this article about changes in mass media,the sharing of information, and the challenge of getting your message out…interesting thoughts.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24616073-5013491,00.html
Cheers
Hi Jonny
I actually deactivated my facebook account this week, and I must admit that my blog has gone eerily quiet in recent months. I can’t keep up…and I’m starting not to care. Conversely, I have been playing more guitar with my mates on the deck (beer in hand) and loving it!
Maybe I’m a Luddite too, but I’m finding myself hungry for what I consider real and authentic relationship.
Hey, you might be interested in this article about changes in mass media,the sharing of information, and the challenge of getting your message out…interesting thoughts.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24616073-5013491,00.html
Cheers
I think the Wired article has some good points, but I much prefer the view in Atlantic monthly this issue:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog
“In journeys at sea that took place before radio or radar or satellites or sonar, these logs were an indispensable source for recording what actually happened. They helped navigators surmise where they were and how far they had traveled and how much longer they had to stay at sea… As you read a log, you have the curious sense of moving backward in time as you move forward in pages—the opposite of a book. As you piece together a narrative that was never intended as one, it seems—and is—more truthful… Anyone who has blogged his thoughts for an extended time will recognize this world.”