Window of opportunity for blogging? (30)

twitter is deadly
Yes, I’m still using one of those blogging-dinosaurs aka a feed reader to keep track of people. While I keep hearing signs that feed readers are a thing of the past, I spent an hour today to wade through my Twitter subscriptions and added blogs from people to my reader (if they have one).

While doing that I noticed many blogs are a neglected space. Several people link to sites from their Twitter-profile which haven’t been updated for a year or longer. Is Twitter the only reason to blame for this?

Last week I felt disappointed with the amount of writing by what I have labeled as my tribe: people that I’ve known for a longer while and have met face-to-face (roughly speaking: the Reboot-crowd). This is the category in my feed reader that I check on a daily basis, but less postings means less inspiration.

On the positive side I guess you could see this as an oppurtunity as well. Less posts leads to less overload leads to more attention for those who DO blog. However, I’m convinced everyone has stories to tell that are longer than 140 characters, so I’d like to call upon everyone to keep/start sharing your stories. It feeds me :)

(about the number in the title)

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  1. Posted December 23, 2009 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

    Hey Elmine – first, Happy Holidays to you, Ton and your family. As to your blogging quest, good luck blogging while on the road. That always sets me back and has this fall in a big way. And now the flu. Ick!

    Waving

    N

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