Comments on: Blogs aren’t dead… even in this Twitter age

By: Blogs are to Twitter what ovens are to microwaves. — Teaching College English

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:19:36 +0000

[...] are not dead. Neither are they passe. Karine Joly wrote on collegewebeditor.com about the issue of blogs and whether they are, as Wired’s Paul Boutin said, [...]

By: scott talan

scott talan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:04:12 +0000

I dont blog per say but still find interesting ones out there in a variety of ways often via facebook. I’ve used social networks to create a self replicating blog ecosytem where users post and respond to what interests them regarding grad school education (mpa and mpp degrees) while i monitor things and comment where it makes sense.

In a media class i teach i tried using facebook as class blog space and that worked. I also attempted to use twitter with not as much success. That said it is as some of the others wrote towards the end of this post; it is not either or (google vs twitter etc) but what combination of online tools makes most strategic sense. I think the biggest challenge i face is keeping up on new sites, apps etc. On that note off to check out ning as well as site called pingg

By: NormaC

NormaC — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:28:18 +0000

Twitter killing blogs is like saying my iPod killed my television…or my laptop killed my desktop. They’re all useful, valuable and none of them can quite replace the others.

By: Heather Teague

Heather Teague — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:28:53 +0000

I believe it is the combination of all of these great tools that come togeher to make the communication effort a success. Humm . . . sound familiar? I’m a fan of integrated marketing both online and offline.

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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:46:05 +0000

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By: Karine Joly

Karine Joly — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:44:20 +0000

@Kyle, Brad has an interesting take on the topic, especially applicable to student bloggers as students aren’t major Twitterers yet (who needs Twitter when you IM with dozens of people at a time and rely heavily on text messages? ;-)

I’m not sure I agree with your 140-word (or is it more 1400 in your case? I’m still amazed at the length of some of your posts) rule though. A good blog post could be composed of a few links or even a short quote depending on your readership. Not every reader will come via Google, some do end up subscribing (as they do on Twitter).

@Dennis, You’re right: two of the blog strengths are its flexibility (isn’t Twitter a microblogging platform, anyway?) and its resistance to time in its regular form (in part due to Google algorithm).

By: Dennis Miller

Dennis Miller — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:11:53 +0000

I try in some of my posts to make them fairly time resistant and find that some entries from one and two years ago are still being read. Some of the crisis PR blogs, judging from traffic, are being studied by college students — PR majors I would assume.
So I agree that there is certainly a place for both forms.
Twitter is instant with a pretty strict format.
The blogging form, on the other hand, is so flexible that it can do pretty much what any blogger needs to do.
I would guess that some blog posts will still to be read years from now by persons looking for information or doing research for whatever reason.

By: drew

drew — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:29:10 +0000

That example from Missouri S&T is great.

By: Kyle James

Kyle James — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:15:28 +0000

As far as Twitter vs Blogs I think Brad described the relationship perfectly in his presentation last week. Here is a link to to the slides and notice slide 53. Twitter is the blog posts between the blog posts. To me if you don't have something more than 140 words to say, yes words not characters. Then it's probably not worth blogging about and just tweet it. Blogs are for sit down and think about what you want to say thoughts, tweets just aren't.

By: Karine Joly

Karine Joly — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:17:39 +0000

Thanks for your thoughtful comment, Kevin.

I can’t imagine how long it would have taken you to share that via Twitter (no, no, don’t get mad, I’m just kidding ;-)

I totally agree with you on your first and second points.

As far as the second one is concerned, I think there was a misunderstanding/miscommunication:
I know that Google does index Twitter posts (as Dan pointed out above). What I meant is that without context those 140-character twitts would probably never (unless Google changes its algorithm) perform as well as blog posts.

And, again, I didn’t say people shouldn’t use Twitter along with blogs, on the contrary – there are great synergies between both tools.