Journal FortKnox's Journal: Netcraft Confirms it! Blogging is dying! 24
I'm starting to feel that blogging is dying out. Just as any fad, once everyone starts doing it, it gets boring fast and people eventually just give up on it. Most blogs that have their own website (basically, not /. journals or livejournal, etc...) that I used to read haven't been updated in a while. Most of them include a "blogging is getting to be a job instead of writing my thoughts out" entry as the last one.
Just got me thinking. In a community, such as this, we can all feed off of one another. We can see when new friends write something and have the ability to find more friends... but, even with rss, people having an isolated blog eventually become uberpopular or die off.
I guess it all comes down to getting attention? If you have an isolated blog, you aren't going to have many people read, and only 25% usually comment, so you just get no feedback from it.
Anyone else noticing this trend or am I just making it up? Just seems like the net is slowing down lately... a lot of blogs and other sites that update regularly and aren't owned by a business are slowing down. Either people are getting bored with their sites or they aren't getting the attention they used to...
Yes, I'm still working on unread before you ask, and no, its not done yet :-P
To kill the time while I'm working on it, I could use some serious help with some graphics for the site (like the unread banner)... so if there are are any professional graphic artists in the crowd.... you know who you are (actually, I think we all know who you are) ;-)
Also, bethanie made a comment a bit ago about having a 'cutest baby' contest... I thought it could work like the photo contests we have yearly, except there aren't many children in the circle... what if I expanded it to children and pets? Any interest?
Just got me thinking. In a community, such as this, we can all feed off of one another. We can see when new friends write something and have the ability to find more friends... but, even with rss, people having an isolated blog eventually become uberpopular or die off.
I guess it all comes down to getting attention? If you have an isolated blog, you aren't going to have many people read, and only 25% usually comment, so you just get no feedback from it.
Anyone else noticing this trend or am I just making it up? Just seems like the net is slowing down lately... a lot of blogs and other sites that update regularly and aren't owned by a business are slowing down. Either people are getting bored with their sites or they aren't getting the attention they used to...
Yes, I'm still working on unread before you ask, and no, its not done yet
To kill the time while I'm working on it, I could use some serious help with some graphics for the site (like the unread banner)... so if there are are any professional graphic artists in the crowd.... you know who you are (actually, I think we all know who you are)
Also, bethanie made a comment a bit ago about having a 'cutest baby' contest... I thought it could work like the photo contests we have yearly, except there aren't many children in the circle... what if I expanded it to children and pets? Any interest?
And in conclusion... (Score:2)
Re:And in conclusion... (Score:2)
And the beauty of marriage is that you can be both dead slow and really, really busy at the same time.
Re:And in conclusion... (Score:2)
Save up that vacation for the summer.
This week isn't all that bad... (Score:2)
Re:And in conclusion... (Score:2)
Oh well, dead slow isn't bad either.
Moi? (Score:2)
Who, me?
Cheers,
Ethelred
Re:Moi? (Score:2)
Got free time? (Notice I waited until the holidays to ask?)
Re:Moi? (Score:2)
Nice clear answer, eh? ;-)
At any rate, my parents are going to be in town for a couple weeks starting Thursday (yay, our first Family Christmas(TM)), so on the one hand, that means I will be spending time with them...on the other hand, they will free me up a lot, given that the Confessor will have someone else to occupy him for a change.
So long as we're not talking too much work, send me the specs and I'll see what I can do.
Cheers,
Ethelred
Re:Moi? (Score:2)
Netcraft confirms... (Score:2)
Blogging... (Score:2)
My chid is my pet (Score:2)
It's a thought- my Christopher's nickname is Beluga....he's my little white whale on the go-go-go-go...
Yep (Score:1)
I'm not a "blog fan".
I'm not a "wikipedia fan".
I'm not an "RSS fan".
All these fads that come and go. If I have anything to bitch about I'll do it in my
Good comment about the week before xmas whoever that was (FortKnox? I'm editting now) it's dead as a morgue around here and our place closes Dec 24 at noon after whcih we return on the 4th. Woo!
My blog ain't dead! (Score:2)
Actually, I'm hoping to start using my site more to showcase my artwork, and hopefully as a springboard to get people interest in buying prints and other stuff off of me. Going to have a shopfront via CafePress, with my site as the advertising side. It's my big plan to keep me occupied over the Christmas break.
I'll still be putting up funny news stories and stuff as well, and I'm also going to be archiving all my old
-MT.
just so you know (Score:2)
blogs (Score:2)
Blogs aren't dead. (Score:2)
I think of it something like how people who wanted a vanity or personal website a while ago just set o
On Unread (Score:2)
Re:On Unread (Score:2)
Re:On Unread (Score:2)
I'll be in dialup land this weekend and next week (ah, time off work to spend with parents and siblings) so I'll try to get back to you when I can, though there might be a little lag. Certainly more than if I were with my broadband connection and not playing gam
whatever (Score:1)
What makes you think it's dying? The stuff in my aggregator seems as lively as ever. Perhaps it's the nature of what I choose.
blogs (Score:2)
Like any cool new technology it's trendy at first and then the novelty wears off . . . and then the tool gets used for what it's really useful for.
I think that web log software/service is the best thing to use for most people who want to have a web site they can regularly update with new information and not have to know anything about web hosting
The blog is dead. (Score:2)
What are the specs for what you want done? If it gets down to it you can do it yourself. "But I can't draw" you say. Quit whining and start reading Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain [amazon.com]. It's just that easy.
Re:The blog is dead. (Score:2)
Then there are those few that are either a)commercial or b)run by dedicated individuals. Personally, I would never run my own blog. /. is just about right...
[1]"Kilroy wuz here!" My website is a prime example, at the moment.....