by Derek Morrison, 27 October 2008
There was an interesting and amusing ~5 minute snippet in the BBC Today Programme this morning initiated by the question Has blogging had its day? (audio) which itself was based on Paul Boutin’s recent Wired item Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 (Wired Magazine, 20 November 2008). The proposition was that blogs should now be traded in for quicker forms of communication like Twitter. The discussion involved Robin Hamman, of computing consultancy Headshift, and Guardian writer and blogger Kate Bevan. They appeared to reach the same conclusion that I would, i.e. “No”. As I indicated in my posting last week Times Higher – “By the blog …†plus (Auricle, 21 October 2008) the so called “blogging culture” is multi-faceted; whilst one facet may well be eroded by new services and tools there are many other facets to blog activity and so, for my money, the blog as an easy-to-use cognitive tool for personal reflection and online publication is still hard to beat. Now Twitter that 🙂
Holden Frith, The Times’ techology and web editor also offers his reflections on the Wired article (The Times, Tech Central, 23 October 2008).
