Comments on: blogging isn’t dead, it’s just a subset of something much larger and more important

By: sezam

sezam — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:38:25 +0000

Great post Hugh.Simple as that

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:52:54 +0000

Gabriel, you “disappointed” comment proves my point… that we’re already taking the concept of “Cheap & Easy Global Media” for granted. 20 years ago this would have been unheard of.

By: Adam Kujacznski

Adam Kujacznski — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:21:14 +0000

Hugh,
It’s great to see that you made it home safely and that you are back on top blogging. As always a great post, i’ll look forward to the next time your in the states for another geek dinner.
Cheers,
Adam

By: Dalingka Gruptwaff

Dalingka Gruptwaff — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:43:40 +0000

"Blogging isn't dead. Far from it. It's just a subset of something much larger and more important." Heheh! Right. That's almost word-for-word the same mantra we chanted about the Source's POST boards ('84), Delphi's SIGs ('88), GEnie's Roundtables ('92), CompuServe's Forums ('99), AOL's Communities ('02), etc. Keep repeating it, Hugh. Ah, yes, that's right. You're feeling very, very relaxed. Your eyelids want to close. You're getting sleepy, droopy, drowsy. As I count backwards from ten to one....

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:39:52 +0000

It’s important to note that, on the technical side, blogging is is evolving as well. Content Management Systems and Blogs used to be different technologies; however, with the search engine advantages of blogging — Content Management systems are now adopting that technology mainstream.
It might be more accurate to state, “Everybody else is blogging more!”.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:38:07 +0000

Maybe true at the individual level. Not true in business.

By: K

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:25:18 +0000

I love posts like your previous one.
Anyone who gives up on blogging
’cause you said so
(yes, even you, being Hugh baby),
will give up when it gets “hard” anyway.
Might as well save them time.

By: deb schultz

deb schultz — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:15:55 +0000

wise and sage thoughts as usual — it is the drive to communicate at the core — use whatever tools ya got anyway you want to — be it indie blogger or big corporation — otherwise, we all should just go back to “monkey speak”

By: TechHairBall

TechHairBall — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:00:06 +0000

Blogging, currently is like Car’s of 1970’s, the best is yet to come.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:19:41 +0000

For me, the growth of the different services allows me to split my content a bit. ‘real blog posts’ go on my real blog — snippets of information/links/pictures go on my tumblog, pure bookmarks into my del.icio.us, and very little thoughts (along with what I’m doing, thinking, eating, drinking) go onto Jaiku.
This means that when (well, if) you go to my weblog, you get the content that’s had real thought put into it — no link posts, no cute pictures, no random thoughts about breakfast.
My blog is benefiting from this, I think

By: Jen

Jen — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:52:36 +0000

I find it amusing what an effect your words have on the masses. What was it like to realise you can sway minds at pen/keystroke?
I don’t mean that in a bad way, most of the time it’s nice to see the world from a different angle. A reason why I keep looking back here.
But I do like the cartoons too. :}

By: PJ at Knowing Art

PJ at Knowing Art — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:19:25 +0000

I thought this would be another boring “blog about blogging” post when I saw it on TechMeme.
They also thought painting would die when photography came around. Great analogy. Painting will never die! I teach oil painting classes and love passing the torch. I think one thing you missed, blogging is about independence.
Where a string-dangler may depend more on the bureaucracy of the museum/gallery/academic, the painter can roll up a dozen creations under one arm and sail to Tahiti. Maybe not the best analogy, but the advantage the professional blogger has: domain “ownership” with total control of content, advertising, and even the ability to switch hosts, preserving inbound links, Google juice, etc.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:54:53 +0000

Mayhap blogging is just injured. Poor thing is limping along on a leg half chewed off by a hungry VC that jumped out at it from the last Techcrunch party; VC high on jello shots with “Love, Michael” scrawled across its head in indelible black ink.
Maybe blogging is stretched thin and hard to see; pulled tight by grasping hands, all desperate for a piece of the good times.
Perhaps weblogging has gone into hiding, and if we go over to tripod.com and search on “rainbow unicorns”, we can find shades of weblogs past hidden among the blinking stars and dancing ponies.
Then again, I heard a rumor blogging was bought by TripAdvisor for three million dollars. And change. We offered to throw in Dave Winer, too, but that made them scream and they ran away.
Oh, and Web 2.0 was yesterday–today’s web is Web 9.75.

By: Tish Grier

Tish Grier — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:22:05 +0000

It really *is* a matter of what we want to use, when we want to use it, as much as whom we may want to reach. Even two years ago, what we used was pretty limited.…
That’s why when some serious people have said “social media’s dead!” (something of an extrapolation of the “blogging’s dead” thing) I had to laugh–it’s really only beginning.
Although all the social networking might put some of us way over the edge

By: jeremy

jeremy — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:52:27 +0000

There it is! This is exactly what I needed after your last post. I knew I had to continue on my blogging journey, I just couldn’t figure out why. Thanks for the pick-me-up.