wired.com— Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.
Oct 21, 2008View in Crawl 4
In response to the only other comment on this story reality is very seldom attractive! The sad reality is that corporate America has taken over the blogesphere and short of hiring a team of SEO gurus to push your blog to the front page of Digg everyday there is very little that can be done about it. How could I possibly express a point of view on any topic that has not already been covered by a professional writer on the payroll of a large corporation writing about corporate interests and then pushed out to any and all aggregators by a top notch team of SEO staff. Unfortunatly that leaves amateur opinionated people such as myself with no audience to speak of. In a world wide web of opinion, the only forum to voice opinion left can be found on unread comments to unread stories such as this one knowing they will go unread. Or move to newer technologies to express yourself, such as twitter.
blogging is not dead, it is just no longer novel. from being the exciting new flavor it has become just another part of the soup. and if we've learned anything from advertising, it's that soup is good food.
Twitter is a great resource but doesn't provide enough detail - so use both. Tweet to get your point out to your community, blog to hit it home. @elaineschoch
Paul Boutin warns his readers with a biting reality check in one word: Don't. With blinding speed, the information age has whisked by yet another trend in the world of key-board jockeys: Blogging. Like many other tech-derived big ideas, web-logs have been commercialized. And although there is still some hope for die-hards who want their text or pics at least peeped at by the surfing public, Boutin reminds us that blog guru and millionaire Jason Calacanis has even hung up his networking-cleats in semi-retirement. And although the big boys have changed the game, there's still opportunity to be noticed on a smaller scale with sites such as Twitter, mainly because of its character limit.
tjgilliesOct 23, 2008
first post!this is just lame! Continue to blog young soldiers of the new media army!
jasonwollamOct 27, 2008
In response to the only other comment on this story reality is very seldom attractive! The sad reality is that corporate America has taken over the blogesphere and short of hiring a team of SEO gurus to push your blog to the front page of Digg everyday there is very little that can be done about it. How could I possibly express a point of view on any topic that has not already been covered by a professional writer on the payroll of a large corporation writing about corporate interests and then pushed out to any and all aggregators by a top notch team of SEO staff. Unfortunatly that leaves amateur opinionated people such as myself with no audience to speak of. In a world wide web of opinion, the only forum to voice opinion left can be found on unread comments to unread stories such as this one knowing they will go unread. Or move to newer technologies to express yourself, such as twitter.
bocorojoNov 3, 2008
blogging is not dead, it is just no longer novel. from being the exciting new flavor it has become just another part of the soup. and if we've learned anything from advertising, it's that soup is good food.
elaine104Nov 12, 2008
Twitter is a great resource but doesn't provide enough detail - so use both. Tweet to get your point out to your community, blog to hit it home. @elaineschoch
mnbywayoflaNov 14, 2008
Paul Boutin warns his readers with a biting reality check in one word: Don't. With blinding speed, the information age has whisked by yet another trend in the world of key-board jockeys: Blogging. Like many other tech-derived big ideas, web-logs have been commercialized. And although there is still some hope for die-hards who want their text or pics at least peeped at by the surfing public, Boutin reminds us that blog guru and millionaire Jason Calacanis has even hung up his networking-cleats in semi-retirement. And although the big boys have changed the game, there's still opportunity to be noticed on a smaller scale with sites such as Twitter, mainly because of its character limit.