I just ran across one of Brian Clark’s posts on Copyblogger from last July titled Blogging is Dead (Long Live Value Blogging). I think I got there from Paul Chaney’s monster size post about what change is afoot in the social blogomediasphere.
Brain put his finger on something in that post that has been in the back of my mind for a while, but that I hadn’t really been able to articulate. He did it first, so here it is in his words:
And you’ll find that the migration of pure social chatter off of blogs and onto social networking applications is a good thing for the rest of us who are looking to build businesses powered in whole or in part by blogs.
The migration of pure social chatter off of blogs and onto social networking applications is exactly what I’ve been noticing. We’re creating dedicated social channels for different levels of communication.
Here’s my handy-dandy chart breaking it down:
OK so some of that may be more satire than dead-on analysis, but the bottom line is that I think we are creating channels for our attention online, where we can adjust the dial as it suits our mood or our goals. And I think that is great.
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Paul Chaney 03.25.08 at 6:08 pm
It is great Jason. (And thanks for the link love btw.) Before we were relegated to a “one size fits all” world where everything went on our blog…more or less. Now, there’s an app for every mood and every form of conversation. It makes the blog that much more valuable a tool imho.