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There is an interesting article by Jason Lee Miller over on WebProNews about the death of blogging. I don’t really see it that way; I don’t think that as bloggers we have really gotten started yet. There is still so much to do, that this will be a generational issue, not one of flash in the pan quick money walk away.

You can compare Blogging somewhat to the Light bulb. We are in our own private labs, as lone gunmen or as small groups of like minded people trying to figure out what we can do, what we can get away with and where the technology will take us. We even have our little spats between powerful leaders much like Edison had with Tesla. We are just getting started and it might take many years before we see the effects of what we are doing.

Bloggers are such a tiny minority in the world right now, even if you take all the abandoned blogs, we are much less than 1% of the earth’s total population in terms of what we are doing. And much like Edison and Tesla, we are doing things that change how people use their world. While we might have issues with grammar, English, the proper use of commas, while we might rip ideas, and in some cases large swaths of content (much like the issues we have with copyright today, they had it back then too) to make our points.

Far from being dead, blogging can be hard to do, sometimes you need a break. As the A List falls away, this will allow room at the top for new bloggers, new ideas, fresher minds, fresher viewpoints and different ways of using the technology. It allows for growth, if bloggers and the blogging world does not grow, does not change and alter with the way the world consumes data, then we quite rightly should face the same fate as other companies and people that refused to adopt change as part of their strategic vision.

With the good and the bad (I have even had my parenting brought into question) we face no different an environment than any other person who is involved in change. Unlike in the Middle Ages, at least authority cannot lead us to the stake and threaten us with being burned alive or recant our positions. Trolls, griefers, they are a natural and unfortunate response to change (luddites come to mind, at least they are not smashing the data centers) that humans have had for millennia. We burn the library in Alexandria, we threaten and hate change, we seek to control that change.

Most bloggers are beyond the point of caring what a few trolls and griefers can do electronically, we only really seem to care when it invades our personal lives, much like Kathy Sierra and Michael Arrington, it is the personal attack, or threats of personal that is scary, not the words on the page from a troll that is basically ignorant of what is going on in the world.

Far from being dead, blogging is in its infancy, we have wired a few homes, we have built a few power generating stations to anchor the spread of the technology. We fight our fights over who has the better idea, the more shiny technology, the better copyright. In the longer term, we are setting the foundation for the future, and it will be the future that decides what will be done with what we have built.

Tags: rebuttal, webpronews, blogging, doa, not, humor, idea, infancy

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