James D highlights the the death of the blogosphere. In this Wired article, Paul Boutin says that writing a blog will no longer guarantee you attention and Bloggers today are expected to write clever, insightful, witty prose to compete with Huffington and The New York Times. Paul is of course a journalist and also a former blogger.
Paul is of course right - starting a blog now will not get you the attention it would have got you 4 years ago. But as a journalist he assumes that all bloggers want to be journalists. However lots of us don't. The more I blog, the less of a **** I give whether I have readers or not (which explains my 49-part history of custard - to be launched next week).
Twitter and Facebook/LinkedIn status updates just don't give me the space I need. I need more than 140 characters - cuz, like, ohmigod, I'm a 35 year old man with a receding hairline who needs to vent a lot - that's a lot. And I ain't pretty enough for YouTube.
Now some middle-aged Californian has said this isn't cool, can the rest of us just get on with it please*?
*This is the definition of "plateau of productivity" in Gartner's hype cycle that they toyed with but never had the balls to publish.
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I'm with you, Matt!(Although my hairline isn't receding as yet...)
I for one am looking forward to that history of custard. (See, there's something for everyone on the Intertubes!)
History of custard? hmm, i shall come back to haunt this space once its posted..:)
Damn! I'm not the first to ask about the history of custard! I just can't wait! :-)
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