Bye-bye Blogs?
This article titled “Apathy and exhaustion are idling bloggers.” It was written by Jon Telvin from the McClatchy Newspaper group and was in the Feb. 20 issue of the Florida Times-Union.
The topic discussed in the piece is familiar to Mass media students in our class. We all know how difficult it is to consistently post a meaningful blog. It feels like work to write something that is thoughtful and hopefully interesting to read because-IT IS WORK! (Many students in our class fail to blog each week even though our grades depend on it.)
The article provides a statistic that there are already over 200 million ex-bloggers. It also says that traffic on blog based sites like MySpace.com have fallen in recent months.An expert from the piece theorizes that blogging will give way to other “more effective forms of communication.”
I don’t know what that means but communication on the Internet is evolving to include all types of media. There is no screening process to become a blogger and no formal instructions or rules on how to blog.
I believe that informal communication like this will continue and start incorporating live video like several messenger programs currently use. I think that in the future blogs will become personal broadcasting places where anyone can experience the feeling of being a newscaster.
How do you feel about blogging?
Will it continue as a medium of communication?
Will you continue blogging after Mass media class is over? And if so, what will your blog’s focus be?
2 comments:
People have already started video blogging. There is a well-known media blogger who posts his video blogs on You-Tube. Our way of communication is always growing and sooner or later blogs won't be as popular. Instant Messaging is bcoming ever so popular with its new techniques and more sites like myspace are growing where people can post bulletins. I mean who needs blogs when you communicate directly with the person, right?
Blogging has died down a little. I still think that people are finding easier ways to communicate and blogging is one of them. Whether you blog on myspace or on youtube its a fact of life that people don't want person to person contact anymore. Our sources of communication is growing and will continue to grow in the future. Soon enough they will have cell phone have cameras in them so when you are talking to someone you can see them not just hear them. They may already have something like that in the works. The fact of the matter people are lazy and always finding other ways to communicate. So blogging and other things is a way to solve their problem.
I also agree with half of the class not blogging. Shoot it is the only thing I get a good grade on so of course I am going to do it. People are just getting lazy, and don't care that it will make their grade suffer.
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