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My blog turns three on April 10th. It lived a short life.
We’ll next week my blog will turn three. I haven’t blogged much lately. I think I’m losing my will to keep this thing going on a regular basis. I think Russ Page is right - micro-blogging sites like Twitter and Facebook news feeds are killing blogging. I know my blogging activity has taken a major dive ever since I took up Twitter and became more active on Facebook (I’ve been on FB since 2005 when I joined to follow my students at Westminster College). If I go back and look at my history I only have a couple posts with true original thoughts since I started with Twitter back in November 08. That proof enough that I need to think about putting this baby to bed.
I think we’re see the new dawn of social media - that is mass adoption of social media and micro-blogging outside the tech crowd and early adopters. Blogs will still be around. They will melt into many corporate Web sites as people come to expect to find them there. The high traffic blogs will still exist but will also morph into more than just blogs. Many already have. Millions of smaller blogs, like chrisknudsen.biz, will continue to stick around but will be less and less relevant in the world (if they ever had any relevance in the first place). My blog traffic has dropped off dramatically in the last couple of months and I don’t care. I get a couple thousand unique visitors per month. Most of that coming in from searches for old topics I blogged about long ago. So who cares? You can only talk to a wall for so long before you start to lose interest.
At any rate, please drop by occasionally. I’ll post something a couple times a month - maybe - but the days of blogging daily and spending hours of time creating original posts are probably over. A part of me will miss that but a big part of me is excited about moving on to other things.
Please follow me on Facebook here or on Twitter at twitter.com/chrisknudsen as I evolve my social media footprint on the Web.
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I hope you’ll keep it to some degree.
I should also say that I think you’re talking to a wall less than you think. (You’re blog was a major factor getting me involved politically, for example.)
Left by Jordy on 04/05/2009According to google reader you’ve still got 22 followers.
The less frequently blogs are updated the more I like them. I’m much more interested in quality over quantity. Would be happy if you posted every six months.
My favorite posts of yours are the ones that talk about local tech businesses here in utah.
Left by Bryan Livingston on 04/05/2009Chris,
Blog as often or as little as you like…I’ll still stop by and read.
You are one of the people who pushed ME to blog, so I would be bummed if you shut it down completely.
However, I’ve noticed a similar “more time elsewhere” situation with my blog as well. But I still need the blog for those times when 140 characters aren’t enough.
Hope you will keep it going once in a while at least.
Marty
Left by Marty Fahncke on 04/05/2009All:
Thanks for your kind comments!
Chris
Left by Chris Knudsen on 04/05/2009Totally agree with your take on where social media is going. Like you, I haven’t blogged much since becoming active on Twitter - in fact, I’ve all but shut down my blog since ‘07.
That being said, I’m going to start a seperate blog for those times when 140 characters just isn’t enough. Twitter is great, but I hope that social media-ites keep coming up with thoughts that take more than 140 char to convey.
Thanks for the great blog posts! You’re one of about three Utah bloggers I still follow, so give us something every once in a while. You’re carrying the torch!
Left by Jeff Jordan on 04/12/2009