Blogging is Alive and Well in 2009
Over at Rice Bowl Journals, people have been lamenting the fact that blogging seems to have lost its appeal.
While I’ve noticed that many blogs have either closed or have not been updated in months (in some cases, years), blogging still is a vital and active part of the World Wide Web.
My feeling is that…
- what we have now has been a process where the casual blogger, who was in it for the fad (or because it was the “in” thing at the time), have come and gone.
Who’s left?
Well, I’m here!
What we have left over are the die hard bloggers in it for the long haul, and longtime online journalers who are simply continuing what they’ve loved to do… and that is to write.
Successful Blogs
In fact, there are still many successful blogs out there, and some have incorporated, growing so large and popular that the blog is now considered a viable company with staff bloggers and tech personnel, etc. Blogs like Lifehacker.com and Gawker.com and HuffingtonPost.com are good examples of highly successful blogs.
And there are the personal bloggers who have forged ahead and found their niche and fanbase. Dooce.com is one blog that comes to mind.
The Dedicated are the Survivors
Of course, there are bloggers like myself, who continue to express themselves via blogging, stuck somewhere between obscurity and worldwide recognition, between a random form of expression and worldwide success:
- People will blog for various reasons, and a few maintain private or semi-private blogs that only a select number of readers are permitted to read. But I imagine that most bloggers are expressing themselves with the need to be heard, to be read.
- Blogs still are the perfect “soapbox” in which to voice your opinions, write your memoirs, or give advice and expertise in subjects in which one is knowledgeable.
- And there are many high profile celebrities, journalists, politicians, etc maintaining blogs. So, blogs going the way of the dinosaur is still far from being a reality.
Did Social Media and Social Networking Sites Change Things?
I feel that, even though many internet users have found an easy answer for self-expression in social media and networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, there is still a need for blogs, and though many people have stopped blogging altogether, there are a multitude of people who still read blogs regularly and faithfully.
With blogs, there is still a high level of interaction involved, and many ways to make blogs function like Facebook and Twitter.
And social media and networking sites are great places to promote a blog, with many blogging tools and plugins designed to automatically post to these social sites when one publishes a blog post.
The reality is that blogs (like websites in general) will always be around, as long as their are visitors and readers to peruse them.
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