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By: David

David — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:18:46 +0000

The articles that declare blogging to be dead are always focused on the hare. As Alan says they write under the assumption that all bloggers want to get into the Technorati 100. It appears that their back-of-the-napkin calculations prove the same thing as mine – no matter how much calculus I apply blog #101 never gets included.

According to those articles blogging is dead today because you chances of getting in the top 100 are much worse than they were in the days whent here were only 95 blogs out there.

By: Barbara Ganley

Barbara Ganley — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:48:49 +0000

Thanks, Alan, for another great post celebrating blogging. You exemplify the deep, extended, ongoing, recursive thinking-out-loud and sharing and questioning that for me distinguishes ongoing blogging from anything else I see out there in the Web world.

Amid the pell-mell scatter of staccato conversations and connections and networks that create the current buzz about the Web, I am so glad for my home blog, a place to warm myself by the slower fires of contemplation and conversation and creativity. Just as some are tolling blogging’s death knell, I find that others are voicing new interest in blogging as a way to pull the power and reach of the Web into local and personal efforts to think more deeply and creatively as we pool our bits and pieces into collective intelligence. This is exciting!

I love your line– “the good, powerful, funny, poetic, silly, serious, quick, in depth, personal writing so f people I respect or respectfully disagree with.” It takes stamina and commitment to blog for years and years, and a willingness to push one’s own thinking, to grow. I don’t think many have the patience for that. I also worry that because blogging does not usually count as work or seen as time well spent, some feel it is a luxury, the first thing to go when time is short instead of being a practice that leads to better thinking and working and connecting. Those who have shed blogging perhaps do not realize how much their readers gain from reading, commenting and linking to their blogging.

Blogging is, perhaps, for the tortoise, not the hare.

~bg

By: Barbara

Barbara — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:24:53 +0000

Yes, exactly, it has moved into the mainstream–even with multiple definitions. Some probably wish it were dead, because it’s too much trouble to evaluate whether the writing is good, worthwhile, entertaining, crackpot, or serious journalism. I guess it’s in that trough of disillusionment on the hype cycle, but surely moving on to the plateau of productivity. Some people are probably tired of the stumble-upon way of running into good blogs, but then, it’s hard to maintain that sense of joy in the revolution.

By: Eloise

Eloise — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:44:54 +0000

“That vast, free-wheeling, and surprisingly intimate forum where individual writers shared their observations, thoughts, and arguments outside the bounds of the traditional media is gone.”

The only bit you could really claim has gone is “outside the bounds of traditional media.” I’m not convinced that blogging is dead, I think, rather, that blogging has moved into the mainstream and has become familiar rather than new. That doesn’t make it dead, it just means it’s not the “next big thing” it’s the “last big thing” and the media are bored even if the bloggers aren’t.