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Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

ha — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:19:08 -0000

You could just have easily focused on the laser printer, Aldus Pagemake or the web browser and Netscape in the 1990s. Blogging is the leading edge in publishing in the first decade of this century.

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

Ha — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:17:56 -0000

it is on the way to mind-to-mind

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

Nick Holmes — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:29:36 -0000

Dave - Agreed that the blog as a platform is a very cost-effective means of publishing any time sensitive information and that now extends far beyond the original concept of a blog.

But, as you'll agree, "blogging" is about more than publishing. I note Clay Shirky's comments are from an interview way back in April 2004, so we must surely disagree with his assertion that:

"The word blog itself is going to fade into the middle distance, in the same way words like home page and portal did. Those words used to mean something relatively crisp and specific, but became so overloaded as to be meaningless."

Even if they use a blog CMS, we won't talk of newsletters, collections of articles etc as blogs, but to my mind "blogging" will live on as the term used to define the "naked conversations" which have popularised the medium.

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

Bruno Pedro — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:49:08 -0000

I agree with Clay Shirky's saying that "the cost and difficulty of publishing absolutely anything, by anyone, into a global medium, just got a whole lot lower" but the number of different places where you can publish is increasing dramatically.

As new publishing places emerge every day, users are confronted with the Paradox of Choice. Where should I host my blog? Why? Where should I publish pictures? Will my friends be able to see them? How should I upload my videos? Should I do a live broadcast where should I publish a better resolution video?

What we need is better tools that take advantage of this growing variety of publishing tools and present us the best options according to our own needs.

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

Colby Olson — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:36:14 -0000

I agree, publication is indeed becoming easier and cheaper, and I find the idea of what is in store around the corner very interesting.

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

Laurie/Halo Secretarial — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:47:56 -0000

It's great - now those of us who are bloggers (or microbloggers or ebook writers, etc, etc) can enjoy that we are published writers without the headache of finding a publishing house to work with!

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

gregorylent — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:11:44 -0000

jeez, i will take a hack at the "individual producer" line too ... we are all beginning to see ourselves as part of group consciousness, and the word "individual" is having its definition expanded. don't look to where it was, you won't see it.

and a side-effect, intellectual property rights advocates are going to struggle to remain relevant. you can already hear, in shakespeare's words, me thinketh thou doth protest too much

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

gregorylent — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:06:45 -0000

it is on the way to mind-to-mind ... in fact twitter is for those whose intuition simply hasn't begun to develop yet ... laggards

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

gregorylent — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:05:15 -0000

bucky fuller, bless his departed soul, called it ephemeralization, still one of the better descriptions

Re: What about blogging? (Scripting News)

Mark Dykeman — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:51:49 -0000

It's interesting to watch and see where the next stages of communication will take us. One challenge that I see, though, is that as the pool of content producers to grow, it will likely become harder to find any individual producer, particularly a new one. Didn't you write about this in your crowdsourcing post from a week or so ago?