Comments on: Social media 101 and how blogging has changed

By: BD

BD — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:30:45 +0000

Apparently it is.

By: Head Hunter David

Head Hunter David — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:18:37 +0000

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!

By: Bene D

Bene D — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:20:34 +0000

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.;^)

By: MadPriest

MadPriest — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:56:19 +0000

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.