Comments on: I miss blogging

By: maura

maura — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:32:13 +0000

Hey! I found Sweet Juniper last week through either design*spong or Oh Joy!. Either way, I love its posts on feral houses and dogs in Detroit!

By: Kopertowki

Kopertowki — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:20:54 +0000

The truth is that it is not easy to blog. You write one or two posts but this is not blogging. Real blogging is putting posts regularly for years and not only for month or two. And there is a lot to write about in years. Sometimes the topic becomes so expanded that you have nothing to write about… And the better way (in my opinion) is to wait until something new shows up on the horizon than to write about anything that is not very interesting.

By: technogran

technogran — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 06:26:20 +0000

I couldn’t agree more Jeff! We brits like to ‘tell a good story’ in our blogs, and you are right when you say that giving a post the ‘more personal touch’ gives your readers insights into what is happening elsewhere in the world that they wouldn’t get via any other method. It is as you say, enriching.

By: Brandon LeBlanc

Brandon LeBlanc — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:33:23 +0000

I hope to not fall into this trap. I think of blogs as a great way to communicate to people. This form of communication is super important. The type of communication you can have with people through a blog is beyond much of the social media stuff that is popular today. You can only say so much in 140 characters. Telling stories, communicating, sharing experiences – this is why blogs are important and I hope to see a re-emergence of blogs because of this. I would hate to think people finding importance of sharing experiences, discussing opinions, etc. to become far less important than doing a "tweet".

By: Jon Udell

Jon Udell — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:11:55 +0000

In a way I’m glad that the 2nd-gen "social media" have taken the spotlight away from blogging. Because it needs a quiet space in which to mature. A whole lot of people — inside and especially outside the tech and political worlds — can and will enrich their own, and one another’s, personal and professional lives using this medium.