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Streams, not blogs?

Cross writes: "Blogs are author-centric in a world that's increasingly about relationships. Blogs are slanted toward me, me, me, me, me; the net is inexorably moving to us, us, us, us, us. Dialog trumps monolog." And so, he argues, we should be looking at lifestreaming, not blogging. My lifestream is in FriendFeed - here - but that's a view of my work that might be too scattered to be useful to people. I won't stop blogging any time soon. Jay Cross, Intrnet Time, June 26, 2009. [Link] [Tags: Web Logs] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Streams

Alan Levine, June 26, 2009

Oh were there a way to have a wave like thing to read in my comment left for Jay. Unitl then, cut and paste--

"Jay, it is with a lot of respect for you that I must bark back and say that the view of a blog being mostly navel gazing is an extreme and narrow view of blogging; akin to saying twitter is only about sharing what you had for lunch.

My blog is not my aggregator nor everything social media, but an important piece of my personal ecosystem. The problems with rivers like FrriendFeed and Posterous (all marvelous technologies) is that they really lack coherency beyond flows.

The blog space is the one I truly own, and as much as I agree there is a shift to a more of an "us" space, you cannot have worthwhile "us" with people who have a strong individuality.

The demise of blogging in the long form, the reflection, the working out of ideas like working dough, is a loss.

I for one pursue the entire enchilda, and having both strong personal space and a river flow gives multiple avenues of access and publishing.

And just for the record, for lunch I am having hot wings and seafood bisque." [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Streams

http://wgreller.myopenid.com/, July 2, 2009

Jay clearly missed the substantial critique on stream services like Twitter and Facebook as being egotistic beyond belief. Where is the "us"? Just because you share does not mean there is dialogue.

In the end everything produced is personal, books, news articles, shared photos, bookmarks, wiki contributions. One of the highest motivators to participate in social networks is making yourself seen/heard/known and to gain social currency this way. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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