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Social media 101 and how blogging has changed

Fun eh? Now on to some blogging 101.

via: Wanderings of a Post Modern Pilgrim

Ways blogging has changed. 11D: The Blogosphere 2.0

5. Reader burn out. You all are not clicking on the links like you used to. I’m not really sure why. In the past, if I was linked to by a big mega blogger, it meant 10,000 new readers in one afternoon. Now, a link by a mega blogger sends over a couple hundred readers. Readers are probably tired out of trying new stuff. Maybe we’ve sent you to too many crappy places over time and you’re sick of it.

6. MSM yawns. All those articles in the NYT and the Wall Street Journal about blogging helped to drive much of the enthusiasm going among bloggers and readers. People really felt like they were part of something important. Blogging is no longer the cool, hot thing.

7. Huffington Post. It has sucked up all the readers. And HuffPo isn’t a proper blog. It is run by people who don’t link to other bloggers and do not get the old ways and norms that greased the system in the old days.

8. Twitter and Facebook. I don’t really need to explain this one.

From Common Craft: Social Media in Plain English (love thier graphics, and very clear explanations, you learn with tight scripting and whimsy. Off to make an ice cream cone:^)

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1 MadPriest on Jul 5th, 2009 at 2:56 am

I still get the hits but most of my friends have long gone. The comment threads are threadbare to say the least.

I always regarded my blog as a community thing but I have become an entertainer as divorced from my readers as a newspaper journalist or a novelist.

I think this change in blogging is entirely down to the gossip sites like facebook. Twitter is the opiate of the people.

Suggestion: Learn Persian or Mandarin Chinese.
2 Bene D on Jul 5th, 2009 at 4:20 am

I’ve found readers seem to expect blogs to become a news or entertainment source.
I don’t comment as much as I’d like to at blogs I read, insist on going to the blog to read instead of staying the RSS reader.
There are blogs I’ve read for years and blogs I discover daily which move me, challenge me , teach me, and are worth every moment I spend at them.

I have a community of readers, however I’m not very good at getting them to speak up.

I’m not doing Twitter or Facebook, hell will freeze over before I tweet; given the hours I spend reading others, researching and writing, fanboys can have their fads, there are not enough hours in the day.

I also find Google blogs and Technorati do not tell me who is linking in effective google blogs is sporadic. Hate that. I’ve lost touch and can’t even say t谢谢。 for the link.;^)
3 Head Hunter David on Jul 7th, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Ok – is that first video truthful? I mean are Mexican jumping beans simply a been with a caterpillar in it? If so, that’s just crazy!
4 BD on Jul 9th, 2009 at 6:30 am

Apparently it is.