Comments on: Wired Sez “Kill Your Blog”… I’m Not Dead Yet (and neither are you)

By: Lindsay Price

Lindsay Price — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:58:36 +0000

Why does everything have to die? Newspapers – die, Blogs – die, theatre- die? Why is it one or the other? Can’t we all get along?

While I actually get Twitter and can see where it’s leading in terms of a communication and connection tool, I just can’t see how Blogs are dying. It’s all expression. It’s going to change of course but all things do.

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:28:59 +0000

@Vishnu: Thanks for the comments and metaphor! Blogs are like cricket, a game with inscrutable rules that baffle someone brought up on baseball! (the reverse happens when we use terms like “”loaded boases”, “striking out” and “tossing a spitter”).

cheers!

By: Vishnu

Vishnu — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:53:11 +0000

I cant agree more. I read Paul’s article in Wired. Facebook, Twitter and others are an offshoot of Blogs. They cater to audience with limited scope to express yourself.

Blogs are like Test Cricket (a popular sport) and twitter is like T20-20 (a scaled down version of cricket). Both are here are stay. The 140 limit of twitter says it all.

Sadly people compare apples and oranges

By: jordan fowler

jordan fowler — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:45:01 +0000

My issue with the value of blogging is less about my google ratings and more about civility in our discourse. I recently was granted time with Os Guiness, author of The Case for Civility, who shared of the lack of respect of the dignity of others in commenting. In reflection up this, maybe the process of write/edit/publish/print in the book world tends to buffer the “you are such a ‘tard” comments. Blog comments tend to be argumentative but not substantively persuasive. Perhaps a change in the general tone of discussion could improve the value of blogs?

By: Maybe Blogging is Dead After All (or our conceptualization is » CogDogBlog)

Maybe Blogging is Dead After All (or our conceptualization is » CogDogBlog) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:24:32 +0000

[...] Lacking no editorial oversight beyond themselves and opinions of their 2 readers, one thing a blogger can do is change their mind. And back again. Last week I asserted, that despite some valley wag’s wired opinion, blogging was not dead. [...]

By: Bryan Alexander

Bryan Alexander — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:35:41 +0000

Bleh. It was a troll, dolled up in Wired. Like pronouncing anything popular to be dead. Bleh, I say again.

By: Lanny Arvan

Lanny Arvan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:43:56 +0000

This Russell Baker piece from a while back might be worth the read because it makes similar arguments about the Death of Newspapers and there are some lessons from considering the parallel.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/20471
Section 2 deals with blogging specifically and whether it is the undoing of journalism, some irony there.

By: Moving Past Cynicism: Inspired by a Former Student « (the new bgblogging)

Moving Past Cynicism: Inspired by a Former Student « (the new bgblogging) — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:02:11 +0000

[...] Wired Magazine article announcing the death of blogs. I, of course, send them right to Alan Levine’s response and then shrug and also point to some of the blogging my former students are doing now that they [...]

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:57:48 +0000

Thanks, Alan. Colleges supporting blogging software do so behind the belief that students should be writing regularly in as many formats as possible… let em microblog, let em blog, let em draft and redraft and redraft, let em write prose, let em write poetry… on and on and on. Writing is thinking, regardless of medium, regardless of readership. Weblogs… Wordpress weblogs especially… offer the most flexible medium, and will preserve their relevance for some time even their capabilities expand and evolve…

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:24:59 +0000

@OTownGuy: Actually, I get a good number of good tech leads from Wired, so for me, yes, the have some amount of relevance. You cannot really paint a whole source based on the medium, it’s the content, man.

They blew it on this one, maybe just to raise some ire. There was like 200 comments on the web version of this “article”.