Facebook, Twitter, Friendfeed, MySpace… is there a place for blogs anymore? Any reason to maintain one? Reading Twitter this morning (@jcposner describes it as a ‘flash-mob in a whorehouse’). I find myself wondering if blogs, after 14 years or so, are headed the way of newspapers.
A rough decade and a half – that’s a long time for a technology these days: it’s no secret that the adoption-to-abandonment curve has become much shorter. Social media sites are competing, pretty successfully, for the eyebalss that the Internet originally peeled away from old media. Email and ‘old fashioned’ web furniture, like blogs, seem to be vulnerable. We’ll see how this all pans out… 7:54:39 AM
We’re off to UCSF in a few minutes: it’s Heidi day, during which we’ll work with physical therapist Heidi Engel before hitting the gym. Heidi’s tough… and that’s good… 7:56:56 AM
The San Francisco Chronicle is dead, a bit sooner than many expected. The Chron is slightly more upbeat about its impending demise, but this patient has been on life support almost since Hearst bought the paper from the deYoung family, who know join Tony Ridder in the category of famous newspaper families who knew when to get out.
Hearst is doubtless taking advantage of the downturn to unload another huge cash drain; i would have thought they would try the Detroit experiment (Friday through Sunday print editions with 24 by 7 web presence) with a much-reduced staff, before pulling the plug. Regrets guys, I loved competing with you when I was at (Hearst’s) The Examiner… 5:07:40 PM
Extrapolating: The Chronicle ran for roughly 150 years, blogs have been going for 15: the current crop of media technology will only have a 1.5 year lifespan, and the Next Big Media Thing will go for 45 days. Most of what we do in the future will be hunt for jobs… 5:24:25 PM
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Chris, I agree that the eyeballs are spending more time on the new sites – and may end up calling the question about blogs. I go back and forth about Twitter, for example – thinking on the one hand it’s a brilliant new resource and, on the other, that it’s just CB radio for 2008 and that this too shall pass! Talk about losing arguments with myself!
Well, since most of the internet is links to AP stories, all a media site really needs are 2 letters. AP AP AP AP
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u guys r weird
Did u haz cheezburgrz?