From the Department of Irony
No sooner had I posted the second entry to this blog than the November 2008 issue of Wired magazine suggested that blogging is dead, having been replaced by Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. I was relieved to read a bit farther and you find that there are serious bloggers who now reserve blogging for their "long-form writing" since Twitter limits its text-only posts to 140 characters. (And here I thought I was accommodating today's shorter attention spans by keeping entries to a few paragraphs.)
Still, Wired is arguably on the bleeding edge of technology, so even if "Twitter is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004," there may be a few good blogging years left. It just goes to show how increadibly fast technology is changing. Whether or not you agree with the conclusion, the argument is being made that a mere four years has brought about the wholesale replacement of an entire communications model. True or not, that's a fairly astounding statement.
Of course the final irony (and I'm certain that I'm not the first to point this out) is that the magazine that chronicles change in the wireless age is still Wired. If they can get away with that, I think I'll just continue blogging, at least until I'm able to generate 140-character "thoughtlets" and Twitter instead.
Still, Wired is arguably on the bleeding edge of technology, so even if "Twitter is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004," there may be a few good blogging years left. It just goes to show how increadibly fast technology is changing. Whether or not you agree with the conclusion, the argument is being made that a mere four years has brought about the wholesale replacement of an entire communications model. True or not, that's a fairly astounding statement.
Of course the final irony (and I'm certain that I'm not the first to point this out) is that the magazine that chronicles change in the wireless age is still Wired. If they can get away with that, I think I'll just continue blogging, at least until I'm able to generate 140-character "thoughtlets" and Twitter instead.
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