After reading the Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 article on WIRED, I checked out the comments. Most users complained about the article. Curiously enough, or not, most of the complainers where bloggers. Certainly, it means that blogs aren’t dead. Perhaps the article is correct in the sense that blogs are obsolete, although they are still in use. The author does
take a pretty extremist position by saying that we should pull the plug on blogs. New forms of blogging are appearing, hybrids that offer more than blogging, and in a simpler way. Indeed blogs aren’t the buzz anymore, and why do they still exist? Because…it is there, for the sake of writing. The usage that is given to the blogs is what’s obsolete. Before, you could write just about anything that popped into your mind and appear in the first 10 in a Google search. Now, you’re lucky if you appear in the first 100. Blogging has been taken over by professionals and corporations, your average user remains average. So, users retreat to simpler ways for social networking; Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter: “evolutions” of the blog, or different forms of expression. A blog is just a different possibility of expression in the multiple forms of expressions there are. The future lies in the place that can offer you all of these forms of expression in one nice, simple, tidy, modifiable package. Keeping it simple is what makes us tick.
