blogging vs. microblogging
Microblogging will defeat the hard work of blogging. It's faster, easier, less time consuming, and has immediate rewards. 1 out of 3 bloggers would prefer twitter over their blogs if they could only have one of these services. Lifestreaming is the new protocol, perfect mix of blogging and chat. Which one would you prefer if you could only have one?
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Permalink Reply by Spyro Poulos on -
Right and tomorrow it will be Milliblogging where you can only post only things like LOL or :) That's all you'll get. How about blogs where you only get to put up 3 seconds of a song or 2 seconds of a video? Maybe one where you can only see a few of the pixels of a photo? I would prefer you picked up the phone and called me and we spoke about your day - or even better stop by and visit and I can hear all about your life. Got to go Twitt now - Mad Men just won an Emmy -woohoo!
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Permalink Reply by Erik Choi on -
I recently joined on twitter,pownce, and rakawa. At the first time, I did not quite get what these microblogging stand for. Only around 140 characters allow, small size of file uploading.... It's getting shorter and faster in a some way. I totally agreed your point. Someday, someone will create Millibolgging that only allows us to say "hi" ,"bye", or "WTF"
I am just wondering if these microblogging really work for social networking? there are really making people get involved..
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Permalink Reply by Thom Dinsdale on -
One out of three is still a minority. :P
I guess its a trade off between the relative depth of blogs versus the immediacy of microblogging. I don't think there is a yes or no answer to which will prevail or whether a comfortable equilibrium will be found.
If one does come out on top I think it will be down to changes in the social blogging environment and the what suits the needs of the information being transmitted. I don't think we'll see a blogging revolution, in that Blogger and Wordpress are going to go out of business overnight, the beauty of the web as it is that software can evolve and mould itself to whatever shape is needed.
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Permalink Reply by Robert Trachsel on -
What's a blog? Please send me a message and I will have my secretary print it out and read it to me.
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Permalink Reply by brian batong on -
I'd go for microblogging! As you've said, it's less time-consuming....like pownce.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin McIntosh on -
I agree, to some degree. But I do get a lot of compliments on my Ad Agency Survival Guide blog for the mix of long blogs vs. short blogs. I understand the difference between microblogging on Twitter and doing a short blog on Blogspot. But I'm just observing that I think that a microblog can create awareness to an issue that can be discussed more fully in the context of a normal blog.
But having said that, I do think I will start writing more of my blogs to be made up of microblog threads so that I can pull soundbytes from that, throw them into Twitter and drive people to my blog from there.
IF we get into milliblogging as someone here has suggested, I think we will have reached a point where attention spans are so short, all we'll be doing is making noise. Perhaps again, milliblogging that drive people to urls for longer discussions in the way a 1 or 2 word billboard drives you to a website could be realistic.
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Permalink Reply by Christopher Baccus on -
There is no depth in microblogging. It's more like your response if someone asked you on the street, 'what are you thinking?' Your response is trite because you don't want to exude any real effort which is part of the joy of microblogging - little effort and yet I can communicate out to my social network in the most efficient way. What it lacks though is intelligent, analytical communication. I think they both have their place. Efficient, quick updates to my social network = microblogging. Well thought out thoughts on a particular topic I'm passionate about = blogging.
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Permalink Reply by Martin Jelsema on -
The blog is more work, but it's also more authoritative. Your depth of knowledge can't be experienced in a miniblog. If you're attempting to establish a personal brand, blogging beats microbranding by far (in my opinion).
The main attribute to microblogging, let's say on Twitter, is the clout of a highly ranked site you coat-tail on by participating. There is, of course, the ability to comment on current events. If you can be cryptic and meaningful, microblogging serves a useful purpose. I'd rather comment on a high-profile blog, though.
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