Apparently now it's all about micro-blogging. Thank Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook status's for all those often banal one line updates on how people are doing, what they're thinking and who they're hating most.
Lily Worth is attending THIS / EXISTS - October 28th Edition.
Benedict Hampenstein is an anagram of Bent Dice, or Decent Bi, whichever you prefer.
Gideon Baltrus splashed out on some fuckin' Ricicles.
140 characters of pure genius. Ive got nothing against micro-blogging, there are many advantageous and even innovative applications for it. Like your boss telling you to be in the office at 8.30am tomorrow for an impromptu but very important meeting. Brilliant, thanks a lot. Im not a Twitterererer but im an advocate for new media. However when a friend posted this article on my Facebook wall this afternoon i was compelled to react immediately.
Over the last 5 years blogging has been celebrated, ridiculed and most poignantly, feared. When everyone got over the cacophony-of-over-opinionated-amateurs argument, the public and mainstream media realised the potential of blogging and its place in the future of journalism. Then of course it was heralded as this perfect conduit for regularly updated information that can be accessed across the globe by anyone with the means, and all the oldschool elitists of broadcast journalism started quaking in their chinos, anxious they were going to be shunned aside by the fleet footed young web-savvy bloggers. Now, it seems we've gone almost full circle and there's this hyped up hysteria about the end of blogging. I hope this is far from the truth.
The original pioneer bloggers and tech geeks are indeed upset that they're clicky inner blogosphere has been hijacked by the likes of Perez Hilton, and i would be too. The intellects and creatives utilised this medium to great effect but it's the sexually ambiguous celeb stalkers that get all the fame and fortune. Cheated yes. But this and the rise of micro-blogging does not spell some apocalypse for the blogosphere. It is true that there is a significant lack of community in the once charming blogosphere and amatuer wit has been ousted for professional tautology and a Google search will rarely deliver more than a Wikipedia article and BBC News page but there's still quality content and shrewd perception floating around out there, somewhere. It's finding it that's the problem.
Paul Boutin's article from Wired is the catalyst for this debate and an astute piece of writing it is. Just a shame it's posted on the monolith of all digital media blogs.
