Knowledge Heroes

“Some people who are worried about the future of The Blog focus on the adaptation response. They’re problem solving, eager to get innovative and make sure blogging doesn’t become irrelevant. In today’s post on the FASTforward blog, The uncertain future of Blogging, Jevon MacDonald suggests some pretty interesting ideas about bridging the gap between long-format blog commenting and rapid-fire Twitter discussions, bringing the two together.

I don’t think the survival of blogs is in danger, but I’m all for exploring ways to improve the format and the conversation. Blogs shouldn’t settle into ruts and expect to be just as vibrant as they once were. That would be like realizing you’re getting weak and flabby, and just succumbing, rather than joining a gym or changing your diet.

There are others who see the changes brought by Twitter and Facebook as a natural evolutionary process, offering an opportunity for The Blog to move away from its frenetic teenage years into a more comfortable, sustainable adulthood.”

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“I don’t know what the fate of blogging is, but as I think about it I wonder if it can survive without changing. Just in the last 2 years we have seen massive uptake in the creation of content by users, but most of it is now outside of the blogosphere. Status Updates on Facebook, Twitter, new levels of photo sharing and geolocation based services and networks are all becoming the centerpiece of attention.
The idea of user-generated content was once almost exclusively owned by blogging. Blogging was the conversation, blogging was the vehicle, blogging was the network.
Now blogging plays a very small role in all of those things.”

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