We need blog as well as Twitter, Facebook
Paul Boutin of Wired Magazine suggested us to ignore blog and recommended us to use Flickr, Facebook and Twitter more frequently. I was just wondering why he thinks that all of these types of social media (blogging, Twitter, Facebook and so on) can’t collaborate each other. Come on man, don’t put blog and social networking head-to-head!
He wrote:
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.
Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.
For me, social networking services like Facebook and Twitter no more than a kind of “outlet”, “door” or “getaway” for us to share and discover.
That’s why we still need a blog, a site - or whatever we call it - where we can put our contents, where we can express our ideas, where we can examine our thoughts. With this perspective, personally, I even still need media mainstream coverage for my content resources.
What if our blog post is not found on the top results of Google? It’s not the big deal. If you can write an original idea or come-up with a breaking news, even though your blog site has a lower page-rank or low traffics, I promise your piece will be found on the first page of Google!
However, the essence of blogging is sharing, instead of getting popularity, fame, etc. If you are blogging and then became a celebrity - that’s great but it’s just a “bonus”.
He also revealed:
Scroll down Technorati’s list of the top 100 blogs and you’ll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones. Most are essentially online magazines: The Huffington Post. Engadget. TreeHugger. A stand-alone commentator can’t keep up with a team of pro writers cranking out up to 30 posts a day.
How could he compare personal blog sites with big media sites like NYT or Huffington Post? My fellow Twitter, Treespotter, is totally right when declare his blogging manifesto:
“This is not a story. This is not a report. This is not a journal. This is not news. This is blogging.”
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1 Brett
Surely he’s being ironic. I mean, a blog post about why blogging is a waste of time? The guy’s a moron.
He doesn’t understand that the blogosphere is not one big marketplace where everyone is competing for attention like magazines on a newsagent’s rack.
Nor does he seem to understand the difference between blogging and social networking.
What’s REALLY sad here is that this idiot is getting paid for moronic drivel.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:25 am2 rama
i guess he’s just having a different point of view. Maybe he never blog anyway so.. that’s why he said that.
October 25th, 2008 at 8:42 ampersonally, i think blogging its merely a medium for narcisism.. it’s almost a new wave media, and the world responded pretty well about it, though indonesian media we’re a little bit late :p
3 Arif Widianto
I think the concern he cared was a blog as such phenomenon, to be like some, underground media, a populist outlets too if we can called. It is what we got at 2002-2004 ago, it is like what we gets right now with Twitter and facebook and so on.
And remember, we are talking about Wired, so we talking about harsh humor, yes, you should Kill Your Blog, (this is the exact title in the magazine, page 27. It’s not a blog post, surely). I believe they are not totally suggesting you should kill your blog, but they are only giving a view about how blogosphere is now became a medium for professional publishers (like mas Budi do it now, hehe) getting head-to-head competing with amateur writers who previously be a king in their world. It’s getting harder to get attention (if you need it). So, yep, those amateur is better tweeting
Agree with Rama, but he is actually still blogging in Valleywag, a professional blog outlet. That’s the circle
Indonesian is too late to enter the medium, that’s why we still get a hype about for blogging.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:16 am4 Budi Putra
Arif, you’re right, but I was just concerned about some misleading points in his article.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:24 am5 Andy OrangeMood
In my opinion, blogging, twittering, plurking or having facebook account is different things. the behavior, the effort, the purpose, the benefit, etc could be different, although some of them can overlapp and change.
I wrote about that in my blog about blogging, microblogging & fastblogging (bahasa), it’s about transformation from blogging activity to another activity (micro/fast blogging)
October 25th, 2008 at 9:38 am6 Anjari Umarjianto
selamat hari blogger nasional, mas!
October 26th, 2008 at 9:37 pmngeblog dengan taste
7 rifie
Guess what? he wrote that on a BLOG. WIRED BLOG. Simply ironic.
Am i right or am i wrong?
October 27th, 2008 at 2:51 am8 Mihael Ellinsworth
You know, Wired is somehow “Too Wired” (Means if they updated it too much) that it become “Tired” at last. As I look at the blog and magazine.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:21 am9 uyungs
A blog is search engine food! Google and other big search engines love content and a blog can help you get free search engine traffic. Recently search engines are giving more weight to blogs because they want to offer the freshest, most relevant content to internet searchers.
October 29th, 2008 at 7:07 am10 sugiarto
I have taken advantages, from peoples that create their blogs, thanks for sharing. And of course I need share too.
November 14th, 2008 at 1:57 am