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By: Yael

Yael — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:54:11 +0000

Will video comments overtake written comments?

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:28:58 +0000

@Alan: Blogging existed long before 2004. You could trace the notion of free-form idea generation and sharing to the early ’80s and bulletin boards, where people replied to each other as we’re doing now.

@Mark: Your firehouse analogy is what I call noise. But there are ways to filter that, as you know. And it’s not necessary to follow everything. Oh, and Milan is a he.

@Craig: It’s funny you say that. My target reader is one who runs ads with their business. But I don’t run ads on this blog. Which proves once again that ads are not the best indicator of a business and blogs don’t necessarily needs ads to sustain. I’m just sayin’.

@Yael: Video blogging won’t overtake blogging. Though, oral speech has existed longer than written language.

By: Yael

Yael — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:01:03 +0000

Great post Ari and one of my favorite books. I don’t think blogging is dead and as a person who is involved in writing for over 15 years (and reading even longer), I do believe people will always want to write. My question is more around vlogging, will that take over, will people speak more and write less (Hyde Park style discussions)?

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:02:52 +0000

I agree with you that blogs aren’t dead but to see their point that the industry is very saturated and losing personality. That’s because people view it as a business and less as a hobby now. Because of it I think blogs are beginning to be viewed in more of a journalistic point of view. The more niche bloggers or small timers who do it more for fun, you will usually see more personality in their writing.

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:40:32 +0000

Good post, Ari, and I love the Kundera quote. Different people, including myself, have talked about the "firehose" effect of social media, whereby the huge deluge of content which comes from following a lot of other users can seem overwhelming. I think this is was Kundera is talking about when she writes that "the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived." However, it's fairly simple to filter or control the noise if you really want to. Mark Dykeman´s last blog post..Temporary site downtime offsite post

By: alan p

alan p — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:51:02 +0000

I don’t understand the question

I added an afterthought to the post you so kindly linked to, in that although it is clear that the Big Blogs are chasing MSM outcomes, and the DiaryBloggers come and go (to Facebook) the low entry cost still allows a huge number of good “small cap” blogs to carry on as they have been doing since 2004 odd – ie fomenting ideas and chatting to each other. I’ve called it “Le Blog Epoque”:

http://broadstuff.com/archives/1363-Le-Blog-Epoque.html

Mine’s an Absinthe next time you’re at the bar

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