Comments on: Are We at "The Death of Blogging" Yet?

By: rp

rp — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:54:32 +0000

Kip, I think your blog is awesome. Your perspective–passionate, erudite, libertarian–is not one I find in the mainstream media.

About Twittering vs. Blogging: why can't these be complements, not substitutes?

What I like about digital media is the general incentive to "right-size" your output. With pixels, rather than column-inches/page count/paper, there's a disincentive either for puffery or cutting beyond the fat and into the muscle.

By: MHodak

MHodak — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:21:32 +0000

As far as I can tell, I'm blogging for a handful of readers, though not as frequently as I used to. A couple dozen followers is good enough for me (I know most of them, though not the folks from India and Australia that Google Analytics tells me provide a handful of unique visitors each day). And the writing practice doesn't hurt.

By: Windypundit

Windypundit — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:10:01 +0000

This sort of thing has been going on for a long time, and people always get over-excited. In my reaction to this Wired story, I give an example from two decades ago.

By: dolphin

dolphin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:29:50 +0000

Reports of blogging's death have been greatly exaggerated.

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:47:25 +0000

The worst part of the commenter's statement is this: "Twitter’s character limit puts everyone back on equal footing." Ridiculous. We haven't repealed the concept of merit. If everyone is on equal footing, then anyone can write War and Peace if they just shove enough words into the format. How we use words characters is far more important than how many.