Blogging Is Dead.

Comments

[Tim Jackson]

Awesome! SO true too... painfully accurate.

[Clinton David Skakun]

Blogging is NOT dead. It's only starting...that might be an over statement.

Love the graphic with the Harley logo:D

-Clinton

[Douglas Karr]

I was asked at an event that I was speaking at once by an older less-techy attendee, how can I tell the difference? I told her that you can't! The lines are becoming blurred and the internal mechanics of blogs are being adopted across all content management systems. Great post.

[Jon Bergan]

Does that mean we all have to go back to using print material and other offline marketing efforts to promote our businesses!?!?

Oh God no! ;)

[Jon Bergan]

Douglas, thats exactly it! If it's not bloggers creating websites out of blogging software packages, its web designers using blogging software to simplify things for their clients. Its amazing how many users want a blog AND a website so why complicate things? The simple answer is to use the same software.

[alex]

so if blogging is dead, does that mean even shorter attention spans?

[Steven Woods]

Love the cartoon, and I'd agree that from a technology perspective they are blurring a lot - at the end of the day, they are both just content systems, and both support RSS, so that part is simple. I don't know that difference between the "officially sanctioned" nature of the corporate website and the "individual perspective" nature of blogs will blur quite as much though. There's a need for both. It will be interesting to see how much they do overlap in the next few years.

[Mark Evans]

Nice cartoon...and link bait. :)

Seriously, I think blogging is an evolving platform that seems to be rolling along, albeit without the sizzle they had a few years ago.

Mark

[Jules]

Good cartoon.

All communication channels are still alive and kicking whether blogging, print, email or anything else. Each has its own merits, strengths and purpose.

[Guillaume]

This is great I love it, I should carry it at every meeting/fair/whatever just to remind people not to show off!!

[DT]

Hey David,

Great cartoon!

But, first apologies. I like to point out that this already here and out there on the web. It is also one of the main reasons blogging platforms like Wordpress is moving towards a CMS (Content Management System) interface and not just their original focus on blogging. Many people especially designers, have created websites/blogs as all one big shebang!

I would state, instead, that "The Blog is the new Website".

[Jennifer]

... my head hurts... j/k :) The rate at which everything is changing is awesome... I do think we are on the verge of something significant out there..onto the next version of..weblog or ??? ..it's going to be a great 2009! Cheers!

[human]

I'm a bit concerned that so many people think the stick figure illustration is so well done. I don't want to wrack too much but come on. If this is quality the communication design world has something to be desired.

As far as blogging, my take is it's another fad of technology created for technologies sake. Content management is content management. A blog is a very rudimentary cms system.

Sorry for the negative post.

[David Armano]

human,

They are stick figures. They are what they are. Don't be sorry, an honest opinion is better than none.

[David Armano]

@designsojourn, you are right. And I am sort of saying that. Just in my own way. Blogs are the new websites. Sites will look like blogs and vice versa. This blog isn't the best example. but it's the best I can do with my own hands. :-)

[Gautam]

Well...it's definitely NOT DEAD! I can vouch for it since I come from a country (INDIA) that has only BEGUN expressing itself thru this medium. I do like the stick figures though. I think there's a marked difference between your "blog" and a "website". Just because a blog has permanent sections doesn't mean it's a website. But I do agree with you in saying that blogs are evolving to more than ramblings of the mind - there is definitely more structure in store for the future of blogging!

[Gautam]

Well...it's definitely NOT DEAD! I can vouch for it since I come from a country (INDIA) that has only BEGUN expressing itself thru this medium. I do like the stick figures though. I think there's a marked difference between your "blog" and a "website". Just because a blog has permanent sections doesn't mean it's a website. But I do agree with you in saying that blogs are evolving to more than ramblings of the mind - there is definitely more structure in store for the future of blogging!

[DT]

The charm is saying it in your way! And that's a spot on point! We can do it with our own hands. We will not be here today without enablers like wordpress or this platform. There is an interesting convergence.

[sayen]

Blogging is anything but dead. I have made many websites in the past and it was always a pain to manage them easily. Blogging makes managing a website so much easier. For this reason alone, I think blogging will stay alive for many years to come.