... looks like we have been too busy blogging to notice that blogging is on the way out: Time for the last post.
I found this remark by Choire Sicha interesting:
"As for blogs taking over big media in the next five years? Fine, sure,” he added. “But where are the beginnings of that? Where is the reporting? Where is the reliability? The rah-rah blogosphere crowd are apparently ready to live in a world without war reporting, without investigative reporting, without nearly any of the things we depend on newspapers for. The world of blogs is like an entire newspaper composed of op-eds and letters and wire service feeds. And they’re all excited about the global reach of blogs? Right, tell it to China.”
Blogs will give us "a world without war reporting"? Choire should click on here or here.
Oh, it's just blogging's turn to for "the sky is falling" angst. It's like the "publishing is dying" articles you get every few months. People just like to rend their clothes and wail about the injustice of the world. I guess it makes them feel better. Or maybe they just want attention. Pay no attention to them.
ReplyDeleteFrank, you remind me that I've been wanting to write something about people who seem to be hard-wired to be apocalyptic. There seem to be people who relish the possibility that everything is going to come crashing down any moment now.
ReplyDeleteAnd Dave, I think you're right: We better not tell Geoff.
The FT article is very long, I have not read it yet. However, I found it ironic that an article about the death of blogging has its own blog for comments, which currently stands at 63. The first comment is by a blogger who says that he only found the article becuase it was linked to from a blog (maybe yours, Frank ;-) )
ReplyDeleteI think the writer is out for attention, he can't really mean it, though it is hardly a new line.
You are precisely right, Kevin.
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