I spend a good portion of my time on the internet. Connected
to close personal networks that filter and share various snippets of what’s
happening “out there”. Events that have happened and happening and happen
contain so much information flooding our senses I wonder how much of it we
truly retain? I bring this up because I enjoy reading blogs, fresh delicious
information I can consume on the go! Yet I forgot that having a blog means I
have to create the content. I have so many words stored up from social sharing
and news and listening that it didn't occur to me to filter it back to the “out
there” where it first came from.
Even
an instant creative idea takes times to burst forth out from your brain and out
of your mouth or on paper. I spent some time looking at other people’s blogs
and found that it seems to no longer have that gusto it once had. Take Blogger,
what I’m using now, as an example. I enjoy hitting that “next blog” button to
see what other voices have to say out there and I find about 12 out of 20 have
been abandoned. Some in favour of different blog mediums like WordPress or
fully fledged websites but mostly just abandoned. The rest I found are spiritually
focused located in the States or Family blogs or just
posting-stuff-from-the-internet blogs ( In Portuguese! ).
I looked into other blog mediums to see what they offered in
this age of microblogging of Twitter and Facebook and whatever else. Let’s be
honest if there is a third or even sixth they wouldn’t have as much integration
in our lives. Tough competition where creativity is the epitome of instant
gratification sent forth into the world before you have time to read it back to
yourself and realise what you just posted was the most
funniest/stupidest/racist/philosophical/incriminating thing you ever said. TheNextWeb
already had this idea a few months ago it seems and done all my work for me in
this nifty pros and cons list:
From TheNextWeb
Welcome back! Quick rundown if you didn’t bother to read all
of that we have the likes of WordPress, Tumblr, Posatch.io, Google+,
SquareSpace and even Facebook Notes are getting in on the action. The only
thing I didn’t like about many of these is that I would have to join up just to
discover new voices. I can’t be arsed to do that. Apart from Posatch.io, I
couldn’t see what kind of layouts and level of customisation I could be getting
over the one I’m currently using. Someone design me a blog roulette type
randomizer so I don’t have to sign up to all these websites!
I don’t think blogging is dying as such it’s just there are
so many of us out there and soo much content to get through. It’s mostly likely
people who read your blogs are bloggers themselves and those who hungry for
that instant hit, probably don’t bother reading your blogs. Those that use both
microblogging and blogging blogging will possibly keep up with both? Busy
peoples!
I resorted to my old past time “Next Blog” clicky and I
shall leave you with some gems:
http://countrywithoutborders.blogspot.co.uk
– The musings of an artsy Jewish woman
http://aliceingalaxyland.blogspot.co.uk
– Astrology and Weird
http://notdadadventures.blogspot.co.uk
–Scottish Pirate turned Parental Role Model?
Next Time: I finally finished SKYRIM! But is it still in the NalaLoves box?
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