Blogging is alive and thriving...

...at least that's the message I get from two posts that I have read in the last couple of days. In Below The Fold , Gary Goldhammer, talks about the first age of blogging, "the age of novelty" coming to an end and  points toward what is the next step, the utility phase. On her blog Mena Stott  of SixApart fame dealt with the need for more civility in blogging at a conference in Paris.

Individual perceptions of civility will certainly vary. That said, blogs won't fulfil their promise as a productive communication utility if they rely on deliberately inflammatory postings. Such an approach will generate comments to be sure but since this is a virtually unregulated medium, credibility will depend in part on self restraint in language and content. 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.....

 

Comments

[Susan]

I think that bloggin is dying out a little at a time. It has evolved into something else that I can't profess to understand.