Comments on: Are blogs becoming irrelevant?

By: wolli: juhuslikud mõtted » Blog Archive » Blogs, feeds, and relevance

wolli: juhuslikud mõtted » Blog Archive » Blogs, feeds, and relevance — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:15:23 +0000

[...] Varsavsky asks if blogs are being rendered irrelevant by RSS feeds. Adrian Cockroft kicks in an interesting idea [...]

By: interjeras

interjeras — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:40:54 +0000

returning to past without design. it cool in some way. rss readers very helpful to have control in my as user hands, what i want ti read that i read

By: Peeter P. Mõtsküla

Peeter P. Mõtsküla — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:05:07 +0000

Feeds give me an easier way to focus on what I'm really interested in right now as not all posts are created equal. However the bloggers of the feed era have to learn two things: good and relevant post titles are a must, and if you're providing a "castrated" feed, then the leads must be even better than the titles. I've written a bit longer comment into my own blog.

By: Blogs becoming irrelevent « All About Mobile….

Blogs becoming irrelevent « All About Mobile…. — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:18:47 +0000

[...] becoming irrelevent Are blogs read less these days ?? Martin has a interesting post on this. This could be because there are now millions of blogs most of them [...]

By: xm carreira

xm carreira — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:37:28 +0000

Anybody can have a blog. In fact, the blogosphere is too big now and blogging as a kind of advertisement is dying.

For me personally, blogging is a way to educate and to be educated by others. Blogging also provided me some useful insights so I will not stop writing my posts.

By: Luca Gervasio

Luca Gervasio — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:30:37 +0000

I have the rss in my iGoogle…keep on posting, Martin! It does not matter how many but “who” read your blog, even if I think there’s traffic you can’t monitorize, due to rss feeds…

See ya!

By: DomPierre

DomPierre — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:37:44 +0000

I blog for a different set of reasons. It’s for me and me alone. It’s an outlet. I post an article when I have something to share. And I don’t care about the traffic.

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:15:29 +0000

Agreed Adrian,

Feeds hurt community as feeds have no comments.

By: Sameer Nadkarni

Sameer Nadkarni — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:03:16 +0000

Martin,

I enjoy your insightful comments and read them regularly. However, I am among those that get an email feed and it’s been a while since I visited your site. I visited today only because you commented about the changes.

My view: blogs or any other source of insightful commentary will never be irrelevant. But in an age of way too much information everywhere, many people (me included) will focus on getting the content and skip the rest. I am doing 90% of my reading on the screen (including newspapers and magazines) and the book reading time has severely decreased. The trends are lamentable.

Sameer

By: Jose del Moral

Jose del Moral — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:05:41 +0000

The answer is yes Content has become a commodity. It has no value any more. With the exception of The Economist and a few more. Even if you know your 10,000 RSS readers don’t give you a penny, you (and me and all bloggers) will keep trying to get some more. This is clearly an attention bubble!