Comments on: Whatever Happened to Library Blogs?

By: The Ebb and Flow of My Online Communities

The Ebb and Flow of My Online Communities — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:36:53 +0000

[...] and then fray about the edges in several of these spaces within FriendFeed. Meanwhile, the blogging community had frayed about the edges (Meredith also just wrote about [...]

By: Iris

Iris — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:46:00 +0000

It is a fascinating shift to watch, for sure! (Though I must admit that I’m easily fascinated by shifting and emerging patterns.)

In the mean time, I’m sitting here pondering the place of name-making in all of this.

By: rogersurbanek

rogersurbanek — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:39:00 +0000

I’ve said, over and over, to my colleagues and anyone who wants to listen, that we’re in the middle of a social, cultural, and technological transition period. I suspect that this is just part of that shift, part of the transition from what the world was to what the future will be, and we happen to be riding the wave. Lucky us. :)

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:29:00 +0000

I called this one over two years ago. It's one of the top reasons why my online (professional) presence does not include a blog. This medium doesn't seem to meet the attention span of some of us anymore.

Having a blog today is no longer special (the way it was relatively new, exciting, and "the future" 2-3 years ago)... especially if it's a "new" blog/blogger. Personally, I wouldn't recommend this format to a newbie unless their brick-and-mortar presence is already strong, or the content would be very original and likely of great interest and demand to a broad audience. That is, if the point of blogging is to make a name for oneself and be more than anonymous (unless you are AL). I'm not completely knocking the medium, though. It is still possible to catch lightning in a bottle. It just won't be happening as often these days. I think the future of this medium is indeed in content that is more focused and concentrated around a finite group of concepts. In any case, it's good practice for writing.

I didn't see this post in my RSS aggregator, or even by manually visiting the page. Saw it on FriendFeed. :)