Comments on: The Death and Life of Social Media http://www.nomorepencils.com/2009/09/the-death-and-life-of-social-media/ there is no dust on the internet Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: David Bennett http://www.nomorepencils.com/2009/09/the-death-and-life-of-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-463 David Bennett Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:12:27 +0000 http://www.nomorepencils.com/?p=846#comment-463 We are in the midst of a huge creative wave, with a distribution system without guardians at the gates saying who will get published and who will not. I am sure that blogging will evolve and continue to be a driving force in that creative wave. How many will blog is an open question. We are in the midst of a huge creative wave, with a distribution system without guardians at the gates saying who will get published and who will not.

I am sure that blogging will evolve and continue to be a driving force in that creative wave.

How many will blog is an open question.

]]> By: Shipra Chauhan http://www.nomorepencils.com/2009/09/the-death-and-life-of-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-462 Shipra Chauhan Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:01:57 +0000 http://www.nomorepencils.com/?p=846#comment-462 Thanks for the links, esp Richard's post. He offers a balanced outlook. And I am surprised at the lack of objectivity in the NYT article. As if NYT had just one agenda: to engage us in a monologue about the decline in the # of bloggers, not an iota of reflection on the bigger picture. A lopsided view at best. Clearly a case of putting down bloggers in general. What do I take home from the NYT article? The blogging phenomenon is nothing but amateur attempts by individuals that mostly try and fail, or give up. Journalism is evolving, and they'd better wake up to that. It is actually their survival that is at stake isn't it? In my opinion, the blogging industry as a whole is still very very young, still evolving, and not dying by far. Thanks for the links, esp Richard’s post. He offers a balanced outlook.
And I am surprised at the lack of objectivity in the NYT article. As if NYT had just one agenda: to engage us in a monologue about the decline in the # of bloggers, not an iota of reflection on the bigger picture. A lopsided view at best. Clearly a case of putting down bloggers in general. What do I take home from the NYT article? The blogging phenomenon is nothing but amateur attempts by individuals that mostly try and fail, or give up.
Journalism is evolving, and they’d better wake up to that. It is actually their survival that is at stake isn’t it?

In my opinion, the blogging industry as a whole is still very very young, still evolving, and not dying by far.

]]> By: David Bennett http://www.nomorepencils.com/2009/09/the-death-and-life-of-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-454 David Bennett Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:15:10 +0000 http://www.nomorepencils.com/?p=846#comment-454 Technorati's 2008 'State of the Blogosphere' shows that at the time of take the snapshot of the blogosphere, of the 133 million blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002, 7.4 million had been posted to in the last 120 days, 1.5 million had been posted to in the last 7 days, and 900,000 had been posted to in the last 24 hours. That means that 95% of blogs had not been updated in the past 4 months. I don't read much into the other statistic can be extracted from these figures, namely that 99% had not been updated in the past 7 days: That is not a long enough time to qualify as 'dead'. The Technorati report is at http://bit.ly/32NSg There was a subsequent article in the New York Times under the title 'Blogs Falling In An Empty Forest' at http://bit.ly/10xDGv In response to the NY Times article, Richard Jalichandra, the CEO of Technorati blogged about it at http://bit.ly/35tuBh and his response is interesting. Technorati’s 2008 ‘State of the Blogosphere’ shows that at the time of take the snapshot of the blogosphere, of the 133 million blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002, 7.4 million had been posted to in the last 120 days, 1.5 million had been posted to in the last 7 days, and 900,000 had been posted to in the last 24 hours.

That means that 95% of blogs had not been updated in the past 4 months.

I don’t read much into the other statistic can be extracted from these figures, namely that 99% had not been updated in the past 7 days: That is not a long enough time to qualify as ‘dead’.

The Technorati report is at http://bit.ly/32NSg

There was a subsequent article in the New York Times under the title ‘Blogs Falling In An Empty Forest’ at http://bit.ly/10xDGv

In response to the NY Times article, Richard Jalichandra, the CEO of Technorati blogged about it at http://bit.ly/35tuBh and his response is interesting.

]]> By: Shipra Chauhan http://www.nomorepencils.com/2009/09/the-death-and-life-of-social-media/comment-page-1/#comment-453 Shipra Chauhan Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:35:11 +0000 http://www.nomorepencils.com/?p=846#comment-453 This reminds me of the first email I saw in my inbox, on my birthday this August. 'Happy Birthday' from Bikram Yoga! I laughed a tad, and trashed the msg, all in less than a sec. Persistent Advertising/ Marketing is becoming increasingly annoying. It has become a rat race of sorts, EVERYONE is doing it, and so should we! Even companies whose products I love and cannot-live-without, really get me rethinking about their push marketing sense, and hence about their good-will, when they invariably start suggesting how and why and what I should like, every other day. Yes, every other day. Blogging is on the decline? I had no idea. Although I do think that too many budding bloggers wilt in no time. Still, I have no numbers to back that perception. Do you? This reminds me of the first email I saw in my inbox, on my birthday this August. ‘Happy Birthday’ from Bikram Yoga! I laughed a tad, and trashed the msg, all in less than a sec.
Persistent Advertising/ Marketing is becoming increasingly annoying. It has become a rat race of sorts, EVERYONE is doing it, and so should we! Even companies whose products I love and cannot-live-without, really get me rethinking about their push marketing sense, and hence about their good-will, when they invariably start suggesting how and why and what I should like, every other day. Yes, every other day.
Blogging is on the decline? I had no idea. Although I do think that too many budding bloggers wilt in no time. Still, I have no numbers to back that perception. Do you?

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