Blogging As a Method of Communication May Be Over!
According to Sarah Perez from ReadWriteWeb, "What's taking its place? Lifestreaming." Hm. This would be a combination of Twitter posts, Facebook status updates, and various oddiments form the mobile phone camera. According to Perez, "Lifestreams are short and sweet, yet still provide the same insight into a person's life as yesterday's casual personal blog did." I am a fan of the short post, as any reader of OLDaily will attest. But I think talk of one form replacing another is silly. They serve different purposes. TonNet, education and tech, August 5, 2008. [Link] [Tags: Twitter, Books, Web Logs] [Previous][Next]Comments
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I agree that they're different - and different users have differing needs! Just as some of us blog primarily for self, others primarily for others, so the information we want about others (and, indeed, what we're willing to release about ourselves!) is going to differ.
As far as I can tell, the ultimate killer is going to be true interoperability. So, I can blog, my friend can tweet, someone else can YouTube, yet we'll all get the updates that we want in the way we want. [Comment]
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Kia ora Stephen!
I'm a believer in the saying 'what goes round comes round'. If you're observant and live long enough on this earth or take an active interest in what people have written about human activity through history in the time it happens, it's amazing the recursiveness of similar types of related activities.
@Emma I believe that you are right in part about interoperability being a possible development, though I'm not so sure it will be as smooth as we'd like it to be. We are now living in the age where telephone links to different mobile technology providers permit calls across what used to be technological barriers. Similarly we have different Internet browser types that seem to be able to cope most of the time with communications across platforms.
HTML's history shows that even a simple language can be adapted for all sorts of seemingly sophisticated purposes with the advent of scripts written into the code. The same happened with BASIC computer language last century so much so that it is still used in some forms today, though on the decline.
But I also agree with you Stephen. Why should one form replace another? Okay, scratchy records were replaced with vinyl discs were replaced with cassette tapes were replaced with CDs - but these are all material technologies. I think interoperability came into it's own when the digital age struck. My kids don't listen to CDs. They download their stuff from iTunes onto an I-pod. It's digital. I listen to the radio - millions of people do. How advanced is that!
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