Maybe because every news orginization has reduced themselves to "Check out this thing somebody blogged/twittered". Blogging isn't gonna go away but I can't wait for Twitter to go the way of Second Life, which was another thing the media had a huge circlejerk over but never caught on in the mainstream.

I'm thinking of starting one, which is generally a pretty clear death knell for any technology or trend. What can I say, ever since they killed my Neopet, I've been a late adopter.

I miss you Gloopy!

teens are lazy, more at 11

Blogging was never hip.

Poodle skirt?

blah blah blog

Blogging has always been mostly garbage that the media picks up on and pushes into the mainstream, just like twitter.

They called it Live Journal... then Dead Journal. And then Live Journal again.

/I consider hardcore bloggers to be akin to the town rambling hobo before computers were computers.

I'm seriously thinking of losing my Twitter account. I used to like it, but then I realized it's true what's said that 10% of the posters make up 90% of the content. And it's BORING content. Also the majority of the sites and blogs I visit have their twitters posted on them anyway so what's the point?

/has a blog
//and a lawn
///from which you can now remove yourself

That which sucked before, still sucks.

Obvious tag: The other white meat.

What the hell is a spat?

This is a repeat from about a week or so ago.

There are plenty of interesting blogs, but there's not a single interesting Twitter page in existence. I can't imagine how the website could continue to exist long term.

When was blogging ever the province of the "hip"?

2chris2: There are plenty of interesting blogs, but there's not a single interesting Twitter page in existence.

fake AP stylebook and shiat my dad says beg to differ

Okay, I like potatoes, but why the hell would someone make a skirt out of a dog?

angryjd: What the hell is a spat?

spat: a brief argument; to quarrel or argue briefly (new window)

Never underestimate the ceaseless onward march of tl;dr.

If blogging is unfashionable, it's because it can contain ideas, and allow in-depth discussion of those ideas. Such things are fast becoming beside the point - at least if you're a trendmaker, advertiser, or forecaster, whose job is to know what's coming, not to understand what's here.

It's just up to those who helped to make it popular, to now do everything they can to make it better. To test boundaries like we did when we initially started the "revolution' that used to be blogging.

Blogging is essentially the same thing as keeping a diary and leaving the book open in front of everyone. Of course it is going to lose its "hip" trendy appeal, just like Twitter and the rest of the pointless stupid stuff that is all hype will.

I had a blog. And then I discovered that I no longer cared about 99.99999999% of the crap that happened in the world. And nobody read it anyway. Aholes.

/lawn
//off

Gunny Walker: angryjd: What the hell is a spat?

spat: a brief argument; to quarrel or argue briefly (new window)

Young Men in Spats

A really funny book. Trust me.

Blogging is just the new name for an editorial anymore

Twitter is good for a laugh, if you follow a bunch of stand up comedians.

ex. Jordin Rubin, Rob Delany, Rob Hubel

How the fark does Subby know what I'm wearing today?!?!

crab66: Blogging has always been mostly garbage that the media picks up on and pushes into the mainstream, just like twitter.

good god I hope the media kills Twitter. It's very hard to watch any news when they cite Twitter as a source.

I blame Romero.

the money is in the banana stand: Blogging is essentially the same thing as keeping a diary and leaving the book open in front of everyone. Of course it is going to lose its "hip" trendy appeal, just like Twitter and the rest of the pointless stupid stuff that is all hype will.

The problem today is that once you're not trendy, you begin to rot immediately. Useful, needful stuff gets thrown out because people are afraid of not being on the cutting edge.

Jebus, folks, most of you are some kind of nerd already. Don't feel you have to be so farking up-to-the-minute; do your thing.

Bagelox-99: Don't feel you have to be so farking up-to-the-minute; do your thing.

I just wanted to let you all know I'm voiding my bowels as I type this.

I have a blog - if you have somewhat interesting content, and Google Adsense, it can actually be a somewhat profitable hobby.

Enough so that if I actually put more effort than one post a month into it, it could actually be a good living. My EULA with Google doesn't let me publicly talk about specific earnings, but it has more than paid for my annual domain and hosing costs by about a factor of 10.

I'm gonna blog about politics so i can feel like i'm accomplishing something by arguing with people i don't know

I'm gonna blog about sports so that i can feel more attached to players and coaches who don't care about me, and so i can feel like i'm accomplishing something by arguing with people i don't know

I'm gonna blog about investing so that I can get 1 thing right for every 9 things I post and then link people to a collection of the right things, and so i can feel like i'm accomplishing something by arguing with people i don't know

I'm gonna blog about fitness so that I can dish out bad advice and screw up rotator cuffs and sensible diet plans all over the globe, from the comfort of my own apartment, and because I have a backlog of inspirational quotes and stories just dying to breathe free

I'm gonna blog about art and design so that I can pass off other people's work as something I discovered or nurtured when in reality I just copied them from one of the major art/design sites and blogs

I'm gonna blog about my personal life because nobody in the real world will listen to my thoughts, so I'll turn to you, my Virtual Narnia of companionship

Diogenes: How the fark does Subby know what I'm wearing today?!?!

Don't sweat it Dio, in this case they aren't referring to the past tense of spit.

It depends on the blog as to whether it is relevant or interesting. Personal blogs, meh. Less than meh, actually.

Focused blogs like Every Day Should Be Saturday for college football, or, ahem...fark.com for irrelevant news, yeah, they are still there.

Gunny Walker: angryjd: What the hell is a spat?

spat: a brief argument; to quarrel or argue briefly (new window)

Uh, I think it refers to this kind of spat:

But without blogs, how will I know why and when to be angry at Obama?

I blog about my bowel movements.

Color, consistency, frequency of etc.

lolmadillo: I'm gonna blog about politics so i can feel like i'm accomplishing something by arguing with people i don't know

I'm gonna blog about sports so that i can feel more attached to players and coaches who don't care about me, and so i can feel like i'm accomplishing something by arguing with people i don't know

I'm gonna blog about investing so that I can get 1 thing right for every 9 things I post and then link people to a collection of the right things, and so i can feel like i'm accomplishing something by arguing with people i don't know

I'm gonna blog about fitness so that I can dish out bad advice and screw up rotator cuffs and sensible diet plans all over the globe, from the comfort of my own apartment, and because I have a backlog of inspirational quotes and stories just dying to breathe free

I'm gonna blog about art and design so that I can pass off other people's work as something I discovered or nurtured when in reality I just copied them from one of the major art/design sites and blogs

I'm gonna blog about my personal life because nobody in the real world will listen to my thoughts, so I'll turn to you, my Virtual Narnia of companionship

Why do people who assume talk is cheap, assume good talk is just as cheap as bad?

/y'followin me here sport?

Is this the thread where we all link to out blogs?

Pure weblogging, of course, is a nearly-content-free procession of links. It's seldom if ever practiced today.

angryjd: What the hell is a spat?

A WWI fighter plane:



SPAT XIII

Not too long ago, in another life, business "experts" were advising us to abandon traditional employee training methods and put everything on a blog, which was the absolute future of training.

Having lived through "Put everything in a podcast!" and "Put everything online!" and "Put everything on a CD ROM" and "Put everything on PowerPoint!" and "Put everything on a video!" and "Put everything on audio cassette tape!" I chuckled silently to myself and waited for the furor to die down.

I've had a blog for about 8 years, just chit-chat about whatever I'm interested in at the moment; books, cooking, old movie stars I'd like to "meet" in the holodeck, sometimes family or travel photos. For awhile I had a growing following and started to tailor it to that. But that turned into actual work, so I went back to just posting whatever I was in the mood for. I have a group of friends who read it, and I read theirs. Now and then I share an actual opinion about something, to stir the waters.

Business as usual for me. Whatever, young people with no attention span. I get that you matter to advertisers, but you don't to me.

I love a gent in spats!

If spats are out, are swalloweds in?

WrestlerManager: Not too long ago, in another life, business "experts" were advising us to abandon traditional employee training methods and put everything on a blog, which was the absolute future of training.

Having lived through "Put everything in a podcast!" and "Put everything online!" and "Put everything on a CD ROM" and "Put everything on PowerPoint!" and "Put everything on a video!" and "Put everything on audio cassette tape!" I chuckled silently to myself and waited for the furor to die down.

If you put everything on paper, it'll still be readable decades, and perhaps even centuries, into the future with no effort (barring floods or fires).

I don't give a sh*t what anyone under 30 thinks about anything.

How is blogging different from simply running a rudimentary website? I have been meaning to ask the hive mind.

WrestlerManager: Not too long ago, in another life, business "experts" were advising us to abandon traditional employee training methods and put everything on a blog, which was the absolute future of training.

Having lived through "Put everything in a podcast!" and "Put everything online!" and "Put everything on a CD ROM" and "Put everything on PowerPoint!" and "Put everything on a video!" and "Put everything on audio cassette tape!" I chuckled silently to myself and waited for the furor to die down.

My company uses blogs as a light Content Management System. Coupled with RSS it works fine.