tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post2866817898037123037..comments2024-03-05T23:42:30.151-06:00Comments on The Poor Farm: Interesting Poll ResultsJeffrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-33658738028646089462010-12-28T12:12:44.706-06:002010-12-28T12:12:44.706-06:00Tam: I agree with what you're saying. I'm ...Tam: I agree with what you're saying. I'm just saying that the blogosphere does not have the influence that some of it's practitioners seem to think it does. Blogging just doesn't attract the eyeballs. Strictly anecdotal - but in my "meatspace" social circle there are under ten people who actually read blogs on a semi-regular basis. <br /><br />I also have doubts about it's future in this world of Facebook, Twitter and so on. I'm sure a Venn diagram of the general internet population would show far more members in the intersection with Facebook, and the intersection with Facebook and blogs would be considerably smaller. Just imagine if Oprah got into blogging. And she definitely has a specific type of audience. She had the ability to affect book sales in a big way with her television book club. I'm also convinced she helped Obama hugely as well.<br /><br />Blogging isn't going anywhere real soon, one way or another. I suspect the blogs that are being read on a regular basis are declining - some due to abandonment, some due to market consolidation. Many bloggers have moved their main efforts into alternate social media - again - Facebook and Twitter. Are those platforms going to supplant blogging? I doubt it. But who knows what kind of new social platform is coming? Facebook and Twitter should be paranoid about the future, AFAIC. I also think blogging's adherents are fiercely loyal and set in their ways - at least the ones in the little corner of Algore's intertubes I see. That definitely has value.<br /><br />Just not as much value as ESPN.com, or the NYT (even if it is a dying, gasping dinosaur), or other influential commercial sites. Ebay and Craigslist have utterly changed the free marketplace forever. What has blogging done that had a similar magnitude of impact? <br /><br />I did mention on Chaz's post about the successful efforts of the gunblogging community. You and so many others have altered the average person's ability to exercise a right. No doubt about it. <br /><br />But ultimately, I really like what Brian J. Noggle said above about comparing blogging to CB radio. That, in a nutshell, is <i>it</i>.Jeffrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-1149032916747696112010-12-28T08:39:08.642-06:002010-12-28T08:39:08.642-06:00Blogs are strange. It's hard to classify exact...Blogs are strange. It's hard to classify exactly what they are when there are so many different <i>kinds</i> of blogs...<br /><br />For some people, blogging is an intensely social activity. They leave comments at others' blogs and respond personally to every comment, and treasure every comment and hit and link.<br /><br />On the other hand, it would be hard to argue that bloggers like Markos Moulitsas or Glenn Reynolds are not influential.<br /><br />There are lots of medium-size blogs that focus on some niche or another that have readerships about the size of a small-town newspaper or middlin'-size fanzine.<br /><br />It's a weird and varied corner of the internet.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-83599730910393932322010-12-27T17:05:57.144-06:002010-12-27T17:05:57.144-06:00Brian: I like that. I like it a lot!Brian: I like that. I like it a lot!Jeffrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-14905664733822921182010-12-27T17:04:29.259-06:002010-12-27T17:04:29.259-06:00I've compared blogging to CB radio many times ...I've compared blogging to CB radio many times over the years.Brian J. Nogglehttp://brianjnoggle.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-67748531015565129032010-12-25T10:51:35.995-06:002010-12-25T10:51:35.995-06:00I thought of you yesterday, while I was driving on...I thought of you yesterday, while I was driving on the icy roads. Thank you for the work you do out there, good buddy!Jinglebobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17529477409184907395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7961111.post-34460632975832779032010-12-24T06:13:05.476-06:002010-12-24T06:13:05.476-06:00But it is fun. lolBut it is fun. lolthreecolliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05811004278088768813noreply@blogger.com