All new bloggers should be aware of:
– When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone … – NYTimes.com
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
– Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter – NYTimes.com
Blogs were once the outlet of choice for people who wanted to express themselves online. But with the rise of sites like Facebook and Twitter, they are losing their allure for many people — particularly the younger generation.
– Blogging | Learner Weblog
… I have found many “fellow” bloggers slowing down in the postings in the blogs, or might have stopped blogging altogether. However, there was also an increase in some of those bloggers participating or interacting in the Facebook and Twitter during the past year.
– The loneliness of the open autonomous learner « Lisa’s (Online) Teaching Blog
If the drive toward social online connections tells us anything, it tells us that people want to be both autonomous and recognized. We want our own profiles, our own apps, but to be part of a network of friends or colleagues. Contributions must be more than acknowledged; they must be appreciated. It is very lonely to post hundreds of tweets or updates, and have no one respond. In online classes, one may post the required number of times in a forum, but have no one reply while others are engaged in conversation.
– Leigh Blackall: What am I doing!?
As far as the education related posts go, it is slightly disappointing to see that so many posts I consider to be important, don’t even rate on the charts (“he refers to stats of his blog”). This sense of disappointment existed long before looking at the stats mind you.
– Can Blog Commenting Survive the Twitter and Tumblr Assault? | Read React Review
A year ago, I wondered if Twitter would cause people to blog less. I am not sure whether it has. Although I can certainly name some bloggers who seem more productive on Twitter than on their own blogs, there are new blogs springing up all the time.
Today, I wonder whether the main effect of twitter has been on blog comments.
#Change11 Is blogging on the decline? | Learner Weblog
My observation was that many bloggers in the past few years have slowed down in blogging, and have shifted to Twitter, Facebook and Google + in the posting of links. Besides the number of blogs posted have decreased significantly as bloggers found it hard to keep their blogs updated with posts, and that not too many readers were willing to provide comments as part of the conversation.
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