So says Paul Boutin in the November issue of Wired. Blogging is so 2004.
"The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter." And if you have FriendFeed, now in 'real-time,' then you can combine all of those into a single social platform. Besides, it operates even faster than the blogosphere, and posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google indexing.
"Personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones . . . A stand-alone commentator can't keep up with a team of pro writers cranking out up to 30 posts a day." Paul adds, "That said, your blog will still draw the Net's lowest form of life: The insult commenter. Pour your heart out in a post, and some anonymous troll named r0rschach or foohack is sure to scribble (idiotic retorts) beneath it."
Paul ends with "Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook?" Apparently, some notorious bloggers have already killed their blogs recently, thereby validating Paul's points. If Apple can kill FireWire (remember Apple was also the first to remove floppy drives from its computers), why not kill 'the blog?'
I too will probably follow Paul's advice, and instead concentrate on my corporate blogs. In my case, it might soon be 'C U on FriendFeed.'
Then again, this kind of a write-up might be just the thing some people need to actually start a blog. But for some of us, at least according to Pulse 2.0, "Sometimes you just have to be patient and know when to cut your losses and start a different type of blog . . . (and) there is a lot of money to be made from blogging."
