Comments on: Are Blogs As We Know Them Dead?

By: Should You Stop Blogging? | Make Money Online FREE | Make Money Online at Home EASY

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:14:46 +0000

[...] which is largely text-based.” Not everyone disagrees with Boutin’s article though. Canadian blogger Mark Evans says: “It’s been about five years since blogs emerged on the media landscape. There are more [...]

By: Blogging’s death knell only rung by those of limited vision | Blogging | A View from the Isle

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:27:26 +0000

[...] the brew-ha-ha about the death of blogging last week didn’t really surprise me much (See Mark Evans, Mathew Ingram, Wired and Tish Grier). I had a post percolating in my head about the whole issue, [...]

By: BizFractals - Is Blogging Worth It Now?

BizFractals - Is Blogging Worth It Now? — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:25:40 +0000

[...] has been around for quite sometime now. According to Mark Evans, there are about 175 million blogs on the [...]

By: Denis

Denis — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:43:06 +0000

Can we please not switch to video blogging? I can’t stand watching videos of things that are much better off on paper. (For example: instructions on how to fix some computer problem, I’ve seen a video of a person walking around with the camera pointed at his face and just talking through the solution. Gah!)

By: Vava

Vava — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:45:24 +0000

From an archivist’s perspective, ALL of this stuff is destined to disappear…

I read lots of blogs daily, and I actually find the ones with videos to be of much worse quality than the traditional text/image type and, therefore, prefer the “old” way of doing things, if you can call 5 years old.

Keep on truckin’!

By: ValleyWag Joins Up With Wired To Denounce Blogging. You’re Dead Wrong Paul

ValleyWag Joins Up With Wired To Denounce Blogging. You’re Dead Wrong Paul — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:31:05 +0000

[...] Industry Standard, The Constant Observer, Mark Evans, The Blog Herald, Furrier.org, blogs.chron.com, SYNTAGMA, Valleywag, CloudAve, New York Times, [...]

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:38:34 +0000

Adam,

You’re right; making a good video involves a lot of work. Thanks for calling me on it.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:31:32 +0000

Wow, overreaction. Dead? Really? I skim almost 30 blogs daily, most of which show no signs of slowing down.

What few people realize is video blogging is A LOT harder than it looks. You can’t just get on camera and start rambling. You have to think about what you say in order to say it coherently and well enough to get people to stick around. Then you mess up, have to reshoot a portion, edited it in, render it out, realize you made a mistake in the encoding process, re-render it out, upload it to a site, realize it doesn’t meet the requirements, re-encode it, upload, etc. With a text blog, you just type, (hopefully) review, and hit submit.

By: ace

ace — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:29:22 +0000

as long as you can blog about it.

By: Trevor Stafford

Trevor Stafford — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:13:15 +0000

Am I the only person who dislikes the idea of video blogs?

If a ‘text’ blog is spurious, I can skim the content and decide that I’m not interested in a few seconds.

And assuming I am interested, I can still skim past the preamble.

With video I get the same itch as TV gives me. A ‘get to the point already’ feeling. With video I simply I don’t have as much control over the information in front of me.