Comments on: blogging is dead? according to whom?

By: Ed Byrne

Ed Byrne — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:19:46 +0000

Hugh,
The only problem I have with the global microbrand is that it’s not saleable the way a business is. No matter how strong your microbrand becomes, you’re creating something that you can’t sell on. So where is the future financial wealth and security?
Sure you’ve more control over your wages, since you work for yourself — but there’s nothing tangible that’s not tied to you directly. So therefore you can’t reap a big payout reward that you would was gapingvoid a trading business that could go on independent of yourself.

By: Alex Barrera

Alex Barrera — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:37:35 +0000

Nicely put. Recently I was writing about something similar. I was thinking about the future of blogging after the next bubble (if it actually burst). I would love to hear some feedback. You can read it here.

By: Teresa Boardman

Teresa Boardman — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:36:22 +0000

I have been thinking about the social networks and how much of my time they take. They don’t add as much value to my business and to my life for that matter as my blog does. On the social networks I listen and follow, on my blog I talk, create, give and sometimes lead.

By: RichardatDell

RichardatDell — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:29:54 +0000

PS Hugh, several months ago when Facebook was the new and Favorite kid on the blog, I wrote about its limitations and the more significant value of blogging, suggesting that perhaps blogging was simply in Seth Godin’s “dip” before fully realizing all its potential.…a possibility, of several transitions along the way

By: Tom Guarriello

Tom Guarriello — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 07:23:24 +0000

A week late (drawn back here by your Twitter revelation of illness forcing you to miss the trip and take some time off…I very much hope all is OK and that you’ll be back out here swinging for the fences again soon) I must agree wholeheartedly with this message. Blogs still matter, no matter what. For me, the addition of a robust YouTube presence has also allowed me to explore the differences in what I produce in writing versus in speaking. It’s been a lot of fun and I’ve learned a tremendous amount from the experience. I do, however, find myself being powerfully pulled back into blogging and my blog buddy roots recently. There’s something about the nature of content that is so different in blogs and video. It’s not just long form versus short form (hell, there’s Twitter for short-form blogs), no, it’s more about the freedom to explore on a blog that’s absent, for me anyway, in video.
Anyhow, thanks for reminding me why I’ve enjoyed your thinking/writing for so long. Get well.
Tom

By: RichardatDELL

RichardatDELL — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:24:01 +0000

Hi Hugh
I didnt know you were an alumnus of UT. Do you have a cowboy hat like David Armano from his visit here? When are you visiting?
Seriously, thanks for the encouragement you left for us at “Delling with Bloggers: Listening, Engaging and Delighting the Users — Skype Journal“
http://skypejournal.com/blog/2007/12/delling_with_bloggers_listenin.html
I left you one back!

By: Clinton Karr

Clinton Karr — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:10:25 +0000

Hugh, thanks for the post, it's motivating me to maintain my blogging goals, which is also a subject Mark McClennan wrote about recently, check it out: http://www.schwartz-pr.com/crossroads/2007/11/common_sense_keep_your_eye_on_1.php

By: Dennis Freire

Dennis Freire — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 03:48:31 +0000

Right on.
On another note: Do you think it’s time to publish your cartoon in another medium? An eBook sold on Amazon? A traditional book? Have you submitted to The New Yorker?

By: Karl Staib I Beautiful thoughts

Karl Staib I Beautiful thoughts — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:33:04 +0000

Blogging isn’t dead in my eyes. I think a person’s first instinct is to give up if their blog isn’t popular, but all it means is that they have to get better. Many people don’t want to face the truth, so they give up and try something else instead of working on their weaknesses.
Great perspective!
Karl

By: X

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:32:32 +0000

I'm trying to write books. I haven't gone far enough to fail yet. I've only written six short stories and all of them were rejected. I believe in objective beauty and I realize my stories were ugly. Greenlights are useful because they prevent garbage from clogging the bookstores. That happens enough already. Oh, vile simplicity! Why are my words boring? Simplicity. I'm writing a story, and the structure isn't coming together. When you outline it from a distance, it looks perfect, then the small details contradict eachother on execution, and it all collapses. I'm glad I have editors watching to make sure I don't say anything undignified. I have higher standards than most people, and I want editors to have higher standards than me. If blogs needed to be approved by a kind of Blogmaster, Emperor of Blogs, or the equivalent thereof, they would all be of higher quality. Why aren't the pieces working? Why am I so pathetic? What did I do wrong? The grass. Does it need to grow? Where is the conflict? If it doesn't grow, then there's no reason to cut it. It's an exaggeration. It grows, and children get stuck. Does that even work? He doesn't care if the children get stuck. His wife does. What does she do? She can't get angry. It doesn't suit her character. How many children get stuck in the grass before she cries? Fiction. Making sense of my own world.

By: dan

dan — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:20:14 +0000

the more and more blogs i read, the more and more i notice that most don’t have any comments attached, so it’s the old ‘if a tree falls in the woods.…’ syndrome. as long as there are places like blogspot and wordpress that will let people blog for free, there will be blogs.

By: Danijel Kecman

Danijel Kecman — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:29:27 +0000

Blogs are only true social network.

By: Robbie Clutton

Robbie Clutton — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:32:26 +0000

trackback: http://blog.iclutton.com/2007/12/100th-blog-post.html

By: Matt W

Matt W — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 20:01:33 +0000

Hugh I'm tempted to speculate whether the extra constraint of removing "fuck", "fucked", "fucking" in conjunction with "yourself", "myself", "themselves" for a week might encourage your creativity... Me - I'm delighted with as many "fuck yourselves" as possible. My readers love it. Matt Wardman

By: Dave Armstrong

Dave Armstrong — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:19:16 +0000

If you learn to draw women with naked breasts with nipples on them in your cartoons your readership will quadruple and more. God’s law of “Naked Women Make Men And Some Women Come Back”. This is one of the greatest advertising designs ever invented. Work with it, work with it …
Best Wishes,
Dave