| soon to be dead So Bruce Sterling decided to take the wind out of the SXSWers with a rant about blogs and mashups being dead in a decade. I can easily envision such happening but only when a significantly accessible and attractive technology comes along to replace blogs. As for mashups, yeah they are an "in the now" kind of thing. But for blogs, I want to say that now with the world being given the power of self-publishing, we will be doing it in one form or another forever. I want to but I cannot. Once, the same statement could have been said for the static personal site. It was relatively easy to make a website for yourself based entirely around whatever theme you wanted. While most looked attrocious, they were still personal. Host Your Site webbies came along and things began to look a little generic. Then journal sites came along and things became a little linear. Then Blogs came along, they regained some personal touches, but were quickly supplanted by Host Your Blog webbies and things went back to looking generic. Soon, something else will come along and replace blogs. We will look back and notice how quaint it was to blather on daily about nothing. When a site updates daily with an article or observation, it will be once again a "daily column" not the business's blog. Oh journals and daily blathering wil still be around somewhere, but something else will overtake the majority of people who go to a tech conference whether it is SXSW or Banff (why do i always want to type bamph?) Blogs in the Snow or whatever. March 15 07 |
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"Banff (why do i always want to type bamph?)"
You know exactly why you want to type out "bamph", or rather, "bamf" :P
Posted by: wN at March 15, 2007 11:04 AM
i wonder if the place has a sulphorous smell?
Posted by: tbit at March 15, 2007 11:51 AM
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