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Posts Tagged ‘lifestreams’

Should I quit blogging, asks Problogger

Problogger responds to the “Is blogging dead” meme that Steve Rubel and others have been posting about.
I get the sense from a lot of bloggers that they feel that they’re being left behind – that all this new stuff that is emerging is beyond them – that it’s hopeless to keep on blogging. My message [...]

How to spread blog content to social networking sites

Feedburner. Make your RSS feed highly useful
Use Google Feedburner for your main feed and comments feed. RSS is how content moves around the web. You don’t have to understand RSS to use it, as setting it up is easy.
Lots of people, including me, read much of their news in a RSS Reader rather than going [...]

Blogs are out of beta, but bloggers should always be in beta

Steve Rubel on how social networking sites and lifestreams are the next indicated thing.
The image above is one of the most important graphics I have ever seen. In fact I stare at it every day on my desktop to remind me that a) there will always be shifts in media and b) one format never [...]

Is blogging dead?

Jon Buscall

So Steve Rubel has dumped blogging for lifestreaming. Charles Arthur at The Guardian also notes that participation on Twitter and Facebook is replacing blogging.
Whilst I’ve noticed some of my favourite bloggers aren’t posting as frequently as usual, my own take on this is simple: don’t abandon your blog – just yet.
The primary reasons are [...]