Is blogging today fundamentally different to blogging five years ago? It’s a topic some smart people have been discussing recently. Darren Rowse bemoans the loss of relational focus where blogs have become more selfish in their participation in the broader community. Richard McManus notes that professional blogging reflects the mainstream media, including the negatives, in […]

Steve Hodson lights the fire under an interesting meme this weekend, suggesting that Tech blogging has become boring. In the post he cites examples within the echosphere that surrounds CrunchMeme.
I do agree with Steve to a point. There are many me-too blogs that report the same thing and regularly link to the same sources, creating […]

One of the challenges facing blogs today in the sea of noise is the balancing act between quality and quantity. It’s actually easy to pump out posts and drive up traffic, but do many posts offer a depth of quality that delivers engaged readers, or simply higher, drive-by page views?
It’s an issue I’ve been grappling […]

The business of blogging is changing. A movement that arguably spawned social media and widespread user generated content is no longer ignoring the web 2.0 changes that have followed its rise. Open and sharing have replaced closed and walled, and a new generation that knows nothing other than cross-network platform agnostic networking expects that the […]

One of the most common arguments against Blogging 2.0 is that it threatens advertising revenue by diluting a blog as the ultimate point of conversation around a topic.
Blogging 2.0 brings new challenges and distribution models, but does it necessarily affect advertising, and if it does, how might the game change?

Blogging 1.0: the electronic newspaper model
It […]

There’s been some amazing reaction and discussion around Blogging 2.0 in the last 24 hours. I don’t mean to write on the topic every day, but there is one aspect I didn’t tackle in the earlier post that others have raised: blogging 2.0’s affect on professional bloggers.
One argument against blogging 2.0 is that in taking […]

Another weekend means another bitchmeme, and this weekend it was all about FriendFeed. Scoble has a good summary of the debate so I won’t rehash it all, but I did want to throw something into the mix:
Ultimately it’s all about the user.
Years ago I got into a debate with Scoble over full feeds vs […]