Monday, February 21, 2011

Ongoing ...

... Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Gee, I blog, and I have a Twitter account. And I'm old, not young. As a former editor, I have say I sometimes wonder about the NYT. In the meantine: If This Is Monday, It Must Be Time for Another ‘Death of Blogging’ Story.

1 comment:

  1. "Former bloggers said they were too busy to write lengthy posts and were uninspired by a lack of readers."

    There's your problem right there. Lack of discipline, a need for attention. Blogs will still be around, offering the voice that alt-weeklies once had. The era of blog to book deal, or even blog to paid journalist, is over. For what it's worth, my essays have become LONGER thanks to Twitter.

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