I noticed this brief article at the NYT about a blogging convention and thought that was a little weird. Blogging conventions sorta died in 2004-2005 not long after they started. But at least this one has some admission in its own blog that things are different in a post entitled "Is Blogging Dead?":
Not according to Hugh MacLeod at Gaping Void. In two recent posts "Why We’re All Blogging Less", and "Blogging Isn’t Dead It’s Just a Subset of Something Much Larger and More Important."More important??? The hobby of the masses is a direct extension of pen-pal-ing that President Eisenhower encouraged the people of the world to take up in his inaugeral speech of 1953. What could be more important.
The funniest thing about that post is the thing that is supposedly "more important" is content-less web stuff like Twitter and Facebook. Apparently the revolution is truly here and all the pages are blank after all. Ever get the feeling that Web 3.0 will all be about masking household odors?
Comments
cm - August 21, 2007 9:40 AM
If it'll do something about the smell of stinky shoes without having to resort to even stinkier air fresheners, I'm all for it.
Hans - August 21, 2007 11:04 AM
Al: Please take heart: I have just read a post from an expert on blogging saying that blogging is not dead (yet). I had been wondering.
Alan - August 21, 2007 11:53 AM
I wish it would die so I could focus more energy on London Skittles!
Sean - August 22, 2007 4:32 AM
"Ever get the feeling that Web 3.0 will all be about masking household odors?"
That would explain all the bloody Febreeze ads/products I'm being bombarded with. I'm half expecting to see advertisments for Febreeze suppositories soon (they've covered just about everything else).
Mike - August 22, 2007 7:49 AM
Considering my desktop is unfortunately in close proximity to two litter boxes, I impatiently await Web 3.0
David Janes - August 22, 2007 9:42 AM
Hugh MacLeod makes a reasonable living with his blog being his advertising agency. So I think he has discovered the true meaning of "more important": putting food on your family's table.
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Alan - August 22, 2007 9:52 AM
Nothing wrong with that. Just doesn't make him clever otherwise.
Rick Calvert - August 23, 2007 1:39 AM
Thanks for the post and the link.
Hope you can join all us dead folks this November in Vegas 8).
Blog on!
Rick Calvert
CEO & Co-founder
BlogWorld & New Media Expo
Alan - August 23, 2007 8:34 AM
Yik. I feel like I just got blog all over me.
David Janes - August 23, 2007 11:01 AM
Blogsmacked! You got blog severed, oh yeah.
David Janes - August 23, 2007 11:01 AM
_served_. Duh
Alan - August 23, 2007 11:06 AM
I don't think I can get this stuff off my slacks with just Tide and warm water.