Something funny has happened recently - I have lost my desire to blog :-0
I know it sounds like social sacrilege but it appears to have left me and I can only point to the influence of Twitter and Facebook as the suspects.
There have been many posts and articles over the last 6 months declaring the death of the blog most of which refer to an increasing trend to send short quick witty messages via social networks and it seems I am not immune to the same influence.
This prompted me to an article I was referred to recently written by Douglas Rushkoff entitled ‘The internet makes me think in the present tense.'Rushkoff's premise is that ‘the internet pushes us all towards the immediate. The now. Every inquiry is to be answered right away’. He really hits the nub of the issue when he says "The now-ness of the Internet engenders impulsive, unthinking responses over considered ones, and a tendency to think of communications as a way to bark orders or fend off those of others'
So there the rub, everything is now so fast paced that we don't have time to stop, think and contemplate things but rather shoot off quick reactions to events, articles etc.
All the points are valid and relevant to my current predicament but I am not sure that this is really the cause - in fact I think that blogging is not really dead it has just evolved and it now takes multiple forms.
According to Wikipedia the definition of a blog is "Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video" so I guess the take out is why should a blog be a static site but instead be a selection of places that we use to engage with people for different reasons - and for that read Twitter, Facebook , You Tube, Linked In !
Sounds like a great new social network idea - although it seems someone else
is on to this....