Whither blogging?
So...why haven't I been blogging recently?
Well, I do, somewhat; I mean, there's the continuous status updates on Facebook and the "microblogging" I do on Twitter--not that in either case I have a great following (Although my 100+ "friends" on FB are an order of magnitude greater than the number of non-spam-followers on Twitter, which in turn is probably an order of magnitude greater than the number of readers of my blog...)
I suppose part of the issue stems from the relative ease of publishing to either FB or Twitter (both have SMS update ability, so I can do it from out and about with my phone, and both have a bevy of browser plug-ins that make it possible to simply click on the status bar of my browser and say something, anything!), part of it stems definitely stems from the notion that a formal blog should Say Something Of Import™, which is somewhat at odds with the whole "world in 140 characters" of SMS--the stock in trade of Twitter.
(Of course, there is a facebook/Moveable Type connector that I just found now while writing this...and the one that MT puts at the bottom of my page, so we'll see how that works out. Certainly the ability to blog from FB into MT is nice, but even Facebook has a limitation of how many characters a status update can have makes that particular blogging channel suboptimal if the goal is to Say Something Of Import™) UPDATE 20 August 2009 Of course, there's nothing new under the sun: Jeff Atwood said it a while ago.
