Is Blogging a dying breed?

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I keep track of quite a few Blogs. And the recent trend I see is most of the guys just post (copy paste more so) stuff about the latest happenings in the tech world (getting a GMail account was hot sometime back) or simply don’t Blog. And one of the biggest surprises was Jivha. I don’t know the guy/gal who managed it, but it was one hell of an active Blog. And now it’s down. Not down as my original Blog is. Down as in pulled down by the owner. Just like that!

Is blogging getting boring? Is the fun dying down? Well, there are lots of Blogs out there that defy the concept. But well, when heavy weight bloggers stop, you get an eerie feeling.

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Sushubh

Yeah, Photo Blogging makes more sense for usual users of the web. And as technology takes a new turn. Video Blogging might become big soon...

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Taco John

Craig,
John C. Dvorak predicted the same thing in a PC Magazine article about a year ago. Primarily, he pointed to the fact that big media outlets were launching blogs, as well as the fact that many bloggers are spending time to write for nobody. I get the same feeling sometimes. Who is reading what I write? Blogs are going to grow, die, breed, reproduce, evolve, etc. It's still a young media, and it's going to go through a number of changes. Photoblogging and mobloging are the newest branches, and I predict those will become more popular than blogging ever was (provided the technology is good enough), because of the ease of setup and the immediate thrill of "take a picture/put it on the web for the world to see".

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Craig

Sushubh,

I believe that blogging will be taken over by the big media giants and the little people will move on to the next big form of self-expression and self-publishing.

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danithew

Keep the faith Sushubh! Don't give in to the blog malaise! :)

I was sorry to hear about the server that went down and two years of work that was lost. Was that recent? Hope everything's getting back on the up and up.

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