Are blogs facing extinction?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 11:34AM A Technorati survey in 2008 found that 95 percent of the133 million blogs it tracks are more or less abandoned, having had no post in the previous 120 days.
Read what the New York Times has to say about it. It is an interesting thought that other social media are taking a bite out of blogging. After all, for professionals, answering questions on LinkedIn provides a built-in audience that is already looking for the information you offer. And of course Twitter can take some credit too.
Certainly, as I've explored the potential of other tools, I've blogged less, but I just hadn't thought about the macro implications. ... What do you think? Are we facing the death of the traditional blog? Are blogs "too web 1.0" as one former blogger says in the article?
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