Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams?

Categories: Social MediaPosted on June 26th, 2009

Top Bloggers Spend Less Time Blogging
I’ve noticed a gradual change in what we know as blogs when Scoble and Shel wrote the book on Naked Conversations. Both of them are now focused on micromedia: Shel has an upcoming book on Twitterville, and Scoble spends more time promoting Friendfeed than his own blog. Secondly, I just learned that Edelman’s top blogger Steve Rubel has retired his traditional blog, and it’s now a life stream, which aggregates content from any source. Of course, I don’t need to mention that many of the top 100 blogs all look like mainstream media, with a team of writers, photographers, and editors.

It seems as if blogging is becoming old hat, or at least evolving into something smaller, faster, and more portable. I’m with Louis Gray, (who has finally blogged his stance –great graphics) I’m not going to give up my blog, instead, I think of it as the hub of content, and the rest of the information I aggregate (notice the Twitter bar up top and the Friendfeed integration below). To me, joining the conversation is certainly important, but it doesn’t mean the hub (or corporate website) goes away.

More Lifestreams Mean More Noise
As more and more people create content on microchannels, we experience more ambient intimacy, but also a lot more data. For example, Scoble pointed out on our panel last night with Mark Silva and Kevin Marks that the iPhone has resulted in 400% increase in uploads to YouTube. I assure you, we have no time to consume all the content created just from our immediate friends and family –the hours in the day stay fixed.

Steve Rubel’s switch to using Posterous (the tool that fuels his lifestreaming) makes sense for him. Why? he’s slowed down on blogging and increased his activity in Twitter and Friendfeed. But what’s going to work for him may be a detriment for others, this increased volume of smaller content the need for analysis and journalism matters even more. When you look at Steve’s new stream, it’s actually heavily on target with the same content as he’s had on his blog, it’s just published faster and quicker.

Opportunity For Those That Can Distill Noise to Signal
Yes, you should certainly socially pollinate your corporate or blog content to other communities, using tools like sharethis, however these should also be hooks for people to find your content. For me, I’m going to respect the needs of my community, and keep on blogging to distill what I think is important.

Key Takeaways

The trend for people to create more content is afoot, as a result aggregation tools like lifestreams, activity streams, and newsfeeds (and a new form of a social/email inbox) will take center stage.
You should certainly join the conversations where they exist, but this doesn’t mean your base of quality content should erode, there are long term branding and search benefits.
As a result, we’ll start to see new tools emerge that help to find the signal –not noise. Those who can filter out what’s important will matter more:, by using a: blog, delicious, or tweets to let your community know what’s important.
Expect the same heavy pieces on this blog, but feel free to spiral with me on Twitter and Friendfeed and whatever tool comes next. I’m going to leave the choice to you. I want to keep the signal high for my business minded community. Needles –not hay.

Update: I gave Scoble crap last night in person over beers for not keeping his blog up. He takes my challenge and rebuts me in Friendfeed. This proves my point he’s losing his thought leadership, his voice is lost in the noise –what do you think? Update (A few days later): Scoble has come to his senses, and is putting focus on his blog now.

Steve has responded from his blog –in paragraph form, so really, he’s actually still blogging, although aggregating other interesting info in his “journal notepad”, I prefer his method over Scoble’s –he’s also retaining his brand from his own domain/URL –although he made his readers re-subscribe to RSS.

To be clear, I admire and respect both of these guys for leading the next movement.

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December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Sean Brady

I have been looking at Posterous since Steve has been talking about it so much. It really is quite a powerful tool. Always interesting times.
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Richard Binhammer

good one Jeremiah. The bits and bites of lifestreams often leaves thoughtful long form pieces behind, while offering on the other hand the immediacy and rapid breaking news approach. I guess I like/need and want some of both
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Dilip Dand

I of late have certainly turned to lifestreaming more than blogging. Given my current lifestyle, I only have time to find interesting content and interact with short conversations. I certainly think blogs have their place but I think they will morph into smaller "lifestream-compatible" posts.
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Dominic Jones

Life streaming happens all the time. Blogging is what I do when I stop to reflect on what has been happening. Real-time vs Context.
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Melanie Reed

Blogging for me is for essays. Life Stream: information and random thoughts and ideas
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Alex Schleber

I've been using Posterous as a "Quick Hits" outlet to post excerpts & brief responses to - http://alexschleber.posterous.com (granted, some people have felt like they'll just post those same items to their main blog, but I wasn't quite ready for that), so I can see Steve's need for a shorter outlet. After all any solo-blogger is now in some way competing with armies like TechCrunch, Mashable, etc. so this is a way to get some additional velocity (compare the integration of a Tumblr RSS feed into http://longtail.com - "Tidbits"). There def. is a place for a "mini-blog" in "life-streaming/mind-casting". But there are valid reasons (SEO, content control, etc.) your main blog should still be the anchor of your social media presence.
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Mark Traphagen

Jeremiah, slightly OT, but where did you get the widget that shows FriendFeed likes and comments on your blog post? I've been using FriendFeed's embed, but yours looks different (e.g., all the "likers" being listed out in bullet point format; avatars for the commenters)
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm (Garin Kilpatrick)

A Blog is an essential component of a lifestream. It always has been, but these days the term "lifestream" is just becoming popular and many people do not yet know what it means. It is a stream of all activity on-line. Friendfeed is a real-time lifestream.
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Scott Magdalein

i think you're mistaken about scoble's loss of voice. i think the difference is that he's directly engaging a more active community. i still think blogs are disconnected compared to something like FF. The thing about FF is that it's social and it's directional. It's a conversation and a broadcast.
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Jeremiah Owyang

I've made quite a few updates as Scoble has returned to blogging, and Louis Gray has posted some very helpful graphics
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Jeremiah Owyang

Mark, I'm not sure, but my web designer Mitch gives answers http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/04/12/guest-post-designer-mitch-canter-on-the-web-strategy-redesign/
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Jonathan Greene

Have to agree with Dominic ... It's all lifestreaming but in different forms based on context and the need to express yourself at the time.
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Jeremiah Owyang

Joanathan, Dominic is right. We're life streaming all the time. Blog posts force us to stop, think, and sort through the constant stream, without this, we're always swimming. Come to shore once in a while.
December 31, 1969 at 4:33 pm Michael Mooney

Yes but it will happen when having a iPhone 3Gs class mobile phones with full Wave protocol integration becomes the norm worldwide and normal people begin to post blogs about life events & WTF events from their phones.

I think it’s less of an abandonment of “traditional” blogging and more of a growing chasm between mainstream media and lifestream media. You said it yourself, the popular blogs are becoming more and more like mainstream media, just a little faster. They thrive on breaking news instead of unique opinion or trendsetting.

Lifestreaming, on the other hand, has traditionally been related to daily goings-on in a person’s life. Rubel moving to a lifestream model is an example of someone adopting the method but keeping it professional. I’ve been lifestreaming professional content for about 6 months and find it refreshing.

Posted by Scott M. on June 26th, 2009 at 6:53 am

Blogging is not performed for the purpose of News anymore like it used to few years ago. It’s about opinions today.

The same thing happened earlier to Newspapers. They used to deliver fresh news to masses. But since they have the competition of electronic medium (in terms of text, not talking about TV which we watch, not read), newspapers became all about opinions, comments and analysis.

This is a way to find a place for blogs in the Twitter and FriendFeed world.

Posted by Dawid Pacha on June 26th, 2009 at 6:54 am

Heh… I was about to write a very similar piece over on my blog. I’ve seen the pattern in my own writing. I am now posting less on my blogs and more on Twitter (and from there into Friendfeed). Now in my case much of this has to do with a new job role and new child (our second), but I’ve seen that I’m not alone in that trend.

A large part of it is the ease, I think, with which we can all post into Twitter and other micromedia. The side effect of doing so, though, is that you also get sucked into *reading* the microblogging stream and then of course replying. And I have found immense value in those conversations and interactions.

However, I definitely agree with you that there is value in longer pieces that provide context, analysis and just generally dive deeper into topics. Such posts are, in many cases, the *content* that gets then distributed and discussed in micromedia/microblogging/microsharing.

So please do keep on providing the great posts you do here. I’ll keep on going, too, although the pace these days is admittedly slower.

Thanks for writing this,
Dan

Posted by Dan York on June 26th, 2009 at 6:56 am

I’m glad that you’re planning to stick with your blog. I get the value of lifestreaming and it might make sense for some, but I also think it makes the creator lazy. Blogs, when written well, provide thoughtful, filtered and thus, IMHO, more valuable content.

Anyway, there’s a place for everything and I value the place of well written blogs.

Posted by Michael Chin on June 26th, 2009 at 6:56 am

Dan, same to you, I rely on your distilling especially in the For Immediate Release podcasts. That’s an audio version of blogging.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on June 26th, 2009 at 6:57 am

Jeremiah – I like this post. We still need places to synthesize and analyze all the content and data being created. I believe blogs, online newspapers and magazines still have a place in the ecosystem to provide this level of analysis. I am active on Twitter, Facebook and my own blog, but still like to sit back and read the New York Times, Wired Magazine, Fast Company, BusinessWeek and many books that provide perspective on the era we are living through today.

I really like Twitter for the real-time, instantaneous information flow and life stream, but I do feel we need more depth.

Thank you for the insightful post.

Bert DuMars
VP E-Business & Interactive Marketing
Newell Rubbermaid
http://www.socialmediaecosystem.com
http://twitter.com/bwdumars
http://www.newellrubbermaid.com

Posted by Bert DuMars on June 26th, 2009 at 7:01 am

Michael

It’s true, people are getting lazy, publishing everything without filtering. I’m guilty too, I average 17 tweets a day, that’s about one a waking hour.

http://followcost.com/jowyang

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on June 26th, 2009 at 7:03 am

Any bozo can write 140 characters. Blogs of any quality require a little more thought.

I think the real-time stuff is great. But just as the presence of CNET and Google News does not eliminate the need for books, the presence of Twitter does not eliminate the need for blogs.

Posted by Josh Bernoff on June 26th, 2009 at 7:06 am

Bert, Josh

The same thing goes for companies, the opportunity to aggregate the important signal in a marketplace (from writing devices in Bert’s space to technology) will be key.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on June 26th, 2009 at 7:11 am

Lifestreaming was my first tweet this morning. Great for publishers, but what and how’s the utility from the reader’s end? One to many – many friends and followers in many places and formats all at once – means it will be easier to distribute many good stuff and gigabytes of bad stuff. Great tool if you use it right. Not holding my breath on that bell curve. We’ll definitely be APIing these types of aggregated-distribution tools into our software. Keep feeds super focused on what our various audiences are following. Look forward to hearing tools for flipside of LS, the streamed, not just the streamer. Curious to learn more about the tagging caliber of LS.

Andre Yap
CEO Ripple100
Social Software + Metro-Centric Media for World of Mouth

Posted by Andre Yap on June 26th, 2009 at 7:16 am

HAHAHA! I love the Followcost site. How annoying will it be to follow @jowyang?!

BTW — I hope you prefer my FB profile pic over my Twitter pic.

Posted by Michael Chin on June 26th, 2009 at 7:43 am

michael

oh. my.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on June 26th, 2009 at 7:49 am

Spot on Jeremiah, I’ve already had to remove Steve Rubel from all my rss feeds due to him filling them entirely in the space of one morning! A shame, I enjoyed his insight, but I think its a bit self indulgant for him to expect us to want to hear from him every five minutes. He seems to have gone overnight from being a valued resource to being an annoying distraction! If my top 5 daily blogs follow his lead there would be no physical way to digest all the info, things would be published faster than can be assimilated.

Note to Life Streamers – we have lives too, your turning what was an interesting read on peoples lunches into a full time job to keep track of!

Posted by Lucas on June 26th, 2009 at 8:12 am

Thanks for writing this post Jeremiah, I like your thoughts on this one. From the readers’ point of view I hate the shift towards more life streams instead of blogposts which I’m much better able to filter. The stream of info just becomes too much noise and I feel I’m either missing things beacuse of attention to certain people is leaking away, or missing things because I skip formerly interesting people from my feeds.

On the other hand.. I can’t read all the interesting stuff anyway and I’m pretty happy with my Delicious filters and link tweeting tweeps. Still like the thought of being able to filter some myself though so keep up the quality blog pls!

Posted by Vincent Neve on June 26th, 2009 at 8:53 am

I saw Steve’s posts about the switch to lifecasting and, like Dan, was going to write something on my blog, but I think you summed it up well.

Did you see the Hitwise statistic that more than half of Twitter traffic (56%) is sent to other content-driven online media sites? It’s a good reminder that there still has to be some content to “share,” less these microsharing tools become rather boring.

I like Twitter, FriendFeed, etc. for helping me to discover new bloggers, tools and resources that I might not find on my own, but I can’t imagine all these little media snacks taking the place of the blogs posts I read regularly. Good content takes time to write and to consume. I’m not sure we’re ready to move away from that just yet.

Of course, Steve and Robert likely have other goals when it comes to sustaining their communities.

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Lucas,

Don’t unsubscribe from Steve, I think he’ll one of the best to filter the signal from the noise.

I’m staying extra subscribed to Steve.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on June 26th, 2009 at 10:02 am

I think most people always wanted that gold standard of social media – extensible conversation. Most did not have, as you and (occasionally) I do, a desire to work out equations, forward arguments and so on. Most want to chat, exchange, go to the online equivalent of a party. I certainly have found that I am more selective about what I blog since I have alternative outlets for the smaller, squirrellier, more dynamic aspects of my personality.

For those who need a blog, I think their approach is largely the same as the bummed-out poet in John Donne’s poem, “The Triple Fool.”

I thought, if I could draw my pains
Through rhyme’s vexation, I should them allay.
Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,
For he tames it, that fetters it in verse.

Posted by Curt on June 26th, 2009 at 11:18 am

Thanks for writing this piece, Jeremiah. This adds some much needed diversity of opinion to the blogging vs. lifestreaming conversation.

While there are significant shifts in communication that underlie Steve’s move (shorter attention spans, more demands for attention, increasing popularity of micromedia, etc.), I can’t help but wonder if an “official” switch to lifestreaming just codifies a de facto lifestream.

If you like Steve Rubel (or Jeremiah Owyang or Robert Scoble or Scott Hepburn or Oprah), chance are you subscribe to his blog, follow his Tweets, read his status updates on Facebook and have lunch with him in real life.

Isn’t that already lifestreaming?

And, even though Steve will be aggregating and streaming his life VIA Posterous, I’ll still CONSUME his stream primarily via Twitter or Facebook (or more likely, Tweetdeck). Why? Because those platforms let me aggregate multiple people’s streams/conversations in one place.

This is an important topic, and one I admit I haven’t wrapped my mind around entirely. Thanks for offering analysis that gives this subject some depth.

Posted by Scott Hepburn on June 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

I think it is still the old case of appropriate tools for the individual and his specific needs and time management skills as well. For some the immediate and short nature of Tweets and shares via delicious/digg/stumbleupon/friendfeed etc are more convenient and adequate, for longer thoughtful pieces and analysis such as your posts blogging will remain the modality of choice.

And that is why the debate will carry on, neither side will necessarily be right or wrong, it depends on your needs and inclination whether you microblog or lifestream or blog full length. And this is where the strategy part becomes important, whether for your own personal brand or as community manager or strategist in the employ of someone else.

Posted by Mario Olckers on June 26th, 2009 at 3:16 pm

I would say that blogging definitely is, there are people like Perez Hilton and John Chow actually becoming millionaires from their blogs. What’s up with that, it’s crazy!

Posted by Jake on June 26th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

I think that this is a revolution in the making. We never had this kind of data before meaning that now people talk about what they think, what they want and how they feel about things. These data can be analyzed and many interesting insights can be extracted (with Twitter being a personal favorite)

Posted by Themos on June 26th, 2009 at 10:57 pm

Very respectful, constructive, and intuitive post, Jeremiah. I agree 100%. Frankly I see opportunity here – as more people leave blogging it gives me opportunity to build my own voice through my blog. There are fewer people to compete with, so long as I utilize social networks and viral technologies to distribute that voice. My blog will always be my central hub for all content I produce though – everything else revolves around that.

Posted by Jesse Stay on June 27th, 2009 at 1:26 am

BTW, you couldn’t have put together a better panel the other day. Each of you have such unique perspectives, but are very well respected in your industry. I know each of you personally and would have loved to have been there – thanks to Louis Gray for taking notes. If you see Silva again tell him hi for me.

Posted by Jesse Stay on June 27th, 2009 at 1:27 am

I just looked at Steve Rubel’s “lifestream” and don’t get all the fuss. He is posting 3-4 articles a day of varying lengths, with most consisting of links, photos, and quick commentary. This is how a lot of people (Kottke, Dave Winer, Andrew Sullivan, Instapundit, etc.) have been blogging for years and years. I’m not sure how Rubel’s discovery that a blog doesn’t have to consist of long essays is news.

Posted by Todd Zeigler on June 27th, 2009 at 4:57 am

I agree, as you say, “…When you look at Steve’s (Rubel) new stream, it’s actually heavily on target with the same content as he’s had on his blog, it’s just published faster and quicker…”

The key change is faster and the reason this is a good move is we, in the community, have less time for reading posts. While they should still be written when necessary, we need to be even more selective than in recent past over what we spend time on.

A quick stream of comments, links and questions fits the new rhythm of our lives now. We have given up on ever reading every word from every relevant writer, we need to dip into subjects, skim thru available resources.

Also, we can impact our community best by streaming our “headline news”, being a presence in many places, we no longer can expect to capture readers with “sticky” content. The flow has made us all non-stick.

Posted by Stephen Harlow on June 27th, 2009 at 6:20 am

Jesse thanks. There’s a smart strategy which retains your blog as the hub, but aggregates and provides hooks to other conversations. The complete other route is going completely distributed and losing your hub all together. There has to be balance –both ways.

Stephen, I think Steve actually is doing it pretty well.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on June 27th, 2009 at 7:07 am

I noticed the same trend and see myself participating in this way also. I used to write substantive posts and commentary on my old WordPress blog, then I switched over to Posterous and now my posts are mostly snippets, quotes, videos, and photos. I also spend more time on Twitter. I know that what I’m producing is a lot more “noisy” – I get fewer comments that I used too for example – but it’s just so much more convenient and blogging for me is much more personal. I think you’re spot on about this is being an opportunity for those who choose to keep up their old blogs. Yours is one of the few I read – it’s extremely relevant, honest, and thoughtful. And call me old fashioned, but I can’t make any sense of FriendFeed and I’ve been filtering my Twitter feed to fewer and fewer users to reduce the noise.

Posted by Christine on June 27th, 2009 at 8:15 am

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My blog is still my primary outlet, but Twitter is indispensable.

Posted by Paramendra Bhagat on June 27th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

I have been blogging for 7 years. I also regularly post to Twitter & Facebook, but for me, the blog is my repository of quality content. As a professional writer, I create short stories 800-1000 words long with beginnings, middles and ends. I think it’s important that writers still have that kind of voice. At the same time, I’ve noticed that most of my comments now come through FB not on the blog itself. Ironic since I have thousands of readers of my blog but “only” 500 FB friends (and about the same Twitter followers).

Posted by Brian Blum on June 28th, 2009 at 3:28 am

No reason a blog can’t be a lifestream but that’s not necessarily content. Or content folks will be seeking out via searches and word of mouth for success.

I’m keeping my main blog, started another, and am contributing to two others. None of them is lifestreaming. That’s what I use Twitter and Facebook for.

Blogging isn’t dead, but it’s become ubiquitous. It was geeks and the hardcore to begin with, now everyone has a blog. The original bloggers are somewhat moving on to what’s most effective for what they’re trying to communicate. Today that’s micro-tools like Twitter and Friendfeed. Tomorrow it’ll be something else.

Cheers.

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Hmmm – I am indeed an avid Twitterer – and occassionally post musings – and share useful links etc. The majority of stuff I read on Twitter however, tends to link to someone’s blog post. The resources you use and leverage are surely down to what your objective is. If it’s about brand building and sharing knowledge – then a blog is a perfect resource for that. Snippets in Twitter really don’t compare – however, Twitter is a really useful resource for promoting your posts. I’ve written a post about social media integration and what piggy backs what – and also a post about blogging frequency. I see micro blogging and blogging as two totally separate mediums – which whilst complimentary – don’t overwrite the other!

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Blogs are psuedo websites. Blogs are many mini free ebooks aimed at creating authority so the writer can back-end sell consulting services or the like.

Scoble doesn’t need to boost his blog anymore because he already “owns” his brand. Same with Israel–although he still works very hard on his (macro) blog.

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Eric

Everyone is selling something

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on June 29th, 2009 at 8:01 am

Why are blogging and lifestreaming mutually exclusive?

I doubt I could ever explain something like health care reform in 140 characters, and the links I post are so complex that most readers can follow them. I do a lot of geek-to-human translation, and it requires some time and effort. But then I post the results to the lifestream places. I have a tumblr, but all it does is log my more evanescent posts to Twitter and other places as a feed. I feel like I do life stream, and certainly make too much noise for many people who follow me. How will more noise help? It just leads to fake fights like whether Arrington is leading the mob or whatever. And I say that with great love for @scobelizer.

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Oops! Meant can’t follow them, and @scobleizer. That’s why streaming doesn’t always work for me:-)

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Francine

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I would use livestreaming and social networks as an added feature for your blogs. I don’t think blogging will be replaced, just enhanced. Video is a more personal way to express your thoughts, as text can easily be misread, but many people prefer reading to watching video. It’s all about adding your personality in ways you feel comfortable.

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[...] Winer, Robert Scoble, Jeremiah Owyang, Steve Rubel any many others on the web are chatting over the a) benefits of going back to [...]

Posted by Supernovas, Twittersphere, Blogosphere & the lostosphere | Screensumer by Santosh Maharshi on July 3rd, 2009 at 1:52 pm

[...] mi parte, por ahora prefiero seguir el consejo de Jeremiah Owyang y seguir con mi blog. Pero hay que tener en cuenta que no soy un early adopter, sino algo así como [...]

Posted by El “lifestreaming” gana adeptos « ESTRATEGIA DIGITAL on July 6th, 2009 at 1:26 am

Posted by Footprints (07.07.09) | Chris Deary on July 8th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

Sorry, late to the conversation.

Facebook as the simple ubiquotous lifestream platform, no? It has evolved to the point where I aggregate compelling content from Huffington Post or GigaOM and read it / comment on it when I want to. I can transmit my own thoughts and connect those I feel should be connected. I can enrich my comments with photos and video. I can manage lists and provision those I want to provision. It is a rich RSS.

I don’t have time to visit individual blogs. I want information to come to me.

Ken

Posted by @kaponte on July 11th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

[...] Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams? http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/06/26/is-blogging-evolving-away-from-blogging/ [...]

Posted by Trends: How micromedia is evolving blogs | ASP Scribe on July 12th, 2009 at 6:28 am

[...] “feels old” and that the new reality is about the flow of information. Louis Gray and Jeremiah Owyang feel that blogging isn’t dead and there is still a place for long-form writing. Jeremiah [...]

Posted by 1000th post and why I will keep on blogging! at | SoulSoup | Blog on E-Learning, Usability, Knowledge Management etc. on July 16th, 2009 at 11:37 pm

[...] Bref, les choses ont irrémédiablement changée suite à la maturation d’outils et plateformes sociales complémentaires (cf. Blogging Vs Microblogging + Lifestreaming + Social Networking). Comment expliquer ce changement : Lassitude des lecteurs ? Saturation de la blogosphère ? Envie de tester d’autres supports ? C’est un peu tout cela à la fois, mais surtout la mutliplication des supports : Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams?. [...]

Posted by Comment le microblog a bouleversé les pratiques de blog > FredCavazza.net on July 17th, 2009 at 6:50 am

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Posted by Dans les Flux on July 20th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

[...] Bref, les choses ont irrémédiablement changé suite à la maturation d’outils et plateformes sociales complémentaires (cf. Blogging Vs Microblogging + Lifestreaming + Social Networking). Comment expliquer ce changement : Lassitude des lecteurs ? Saturation de la blogosphère ? Envie de tester d’autres supports ? C’est un peu tout cela à la fois, mais surtout la mutliplication des supports : Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams?. [...]

Posted by Comment le microblog a bouleversé les pratiques de blog | MKT planet - News Web Marketing - Nouvelles Technologies on July 27th, 2009 at 7:06 am

[...] Is Blogging Evolving Into Life Streams? (web-strategist.com) [...]

Posted by Did Twitter Kill the Blogger Star? | CloudAve on August 4th, 2009 at 7:02 am

[...] to center on platforms such as twitter and FriendFeed. Besides the increased noise inherent to lifestreaming, there is increased risk in making your contributions (and having your readers contribute back) in [...]

Posted by The Broken Web « The Alter Egozi on August 18th, 2009 at 2:14 pm

[...] Walmart/Edleman fake blog exploded he went quiet, yet aren’t bloggers supposed to be transparent? Jermiah Owyan calls him a “top blogger” (Jermiah – how do you measure that?) If you look at his blog over the last year a large [...]

Posted by You Don’t Blog, Are You Now A Life Streamer? on September 21st, 2009 at 7:01 am

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