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louisgray.com: louisgray.com: Blogging's Future Is Both Consolidating and Expanding

  • Peter Efland · 1 year ago
    Good article - I agree on your point that Microblogging will not kill regular blogging, instead they might have an added value to blogging. A tendency, I think, is to see bloggers with both a regular blog for one type of audience and a microblog for another audience.... or maybe the audience is not the difference, maybe the content is the difference...
  • robdiana · 1 year ago
    Phefland,

    In what I have seen, blogs are staying as long-form posts. Microblogging, Twitter or Tumblr flavors, are tending to sharing links or quick line notes. I think that is a good thing because people can separate the two types of content.
  • Peter Efland · 1 year ago
    I agree Robdiana. I think that traditional blogposts often serves more thoughtful ideas, where microblgs, tumblr style is the fast sharing of videos, links, pics - and I think its brilliant with both of them as they can serve different crowds at different moods. As you said.
  • Hutch Carpenter · 1 year ago
    Great post Rob. One thing I'm starting to see is that comments are becoming a middle ground between blogging and microblogging. When you post a comment, you get to leverage the thinking that another blogger has put in (such as you have here). Your comment has context, as it is associated to a blog post about a specific topic.

    When comments were siloed inside a blog, there was no way to expose that content into your other social realms. Blogs (via RSS) and Twitter allowed you to engage your social networks more broadly.

    With Disqus, IntenseDebate and BackType, comments are a great addition to the world of sharing ideas, thoughts, and questions with your social networks.
  • robdiana · 1 year ago
    Hutch,
    With some of the comment and aggregation services, the lines blur even more. I do think that there will be some consolidation there as none of the platforms are "enough" to truly succeed on their own. The comment systems and aggregators likely will become part of a larger platform, either a current blog platform or even an aggregator like FriendFeed.
  • Eric Berlin · 1 year ago
    Yes, exactly, stemming from your reply to Hutch, your excellent piece made me think that as Twitter filled a fundamental need and space in the social media marketplace, other services will find other niches. TwitWall comes to mind as a site that blurs the line between microblogging and blogging for example.