andrew dodson

After posting my “not sure I want to blog anymore” post yesterday, I came across this article.  It details the reasons why blogs are falling by the wayside.  Notably:

Further, text-based Web sites aren’t where the buzz is anymore. The
reason blogs took off is that they made publishing easy for
non-techies. Part of that simplicity was a lack of support for
pictures, audio, and videoclips. At the time, multimedia content was
too hard to upload, too unlikely to play back, and too hungry for
bandwidth.

Social multimedia sites like YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook have
since made publishing pics and video as easy as typing text. Easier, if
you consider the time most bloggers spend fretting over their words.
Take a clue from Robert Scoble,
who made his name as Microsoft’s “technical evangelist” blogger from
2003 to 2006. Today, he focuses on posting videos and Twitter updates.
“I keep my blog mostly for long-form writing,” he says.

Twitter — which limits each text-only post to 140 characters — is to
2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004. You’ll find Scoble, Calacanis,
and most of their buddies from the golden age there. They claim it’s
because Twitter operates even faster than the blogosphere. And Twitter
posts can be searched instantly, without waiting for Google to index
them.

So, in the past two days, I’ve posted two blogs about how I’m not sure I want to blog anymore.  Blogging about not blogging.  Makes perfect sense.