education & tech: Blogging as a Method of Communication May Be Over
Everyone could be a publisher. But now, blogging as everyones preferred method of communication may be over. Whats taking its place? Lifestreaming…The simplicity of a lifestream is ideal for our information overloaded age. Lifestreams are short and sweet, yet still provide the same insight into a person’s life as yesterday’s casual personal blog did. A video here, a photo there, and today’s web citizens can voyeuristically peer into anyone’s life and get a sense of who they are. Long-form bloggers, on the other hand (myself included) require time and attention to read, but with so many publishers out there, people just aren’t reading content like they used to – they’re just scanning text and moving on. For new bloggers, this means getting readers is harder than ever – your words are getting lost in a sea of noise. So to stand out, several are turning to the lifestream instead in order to get noticed.”
Something just seems inherently wrong about this notion of Lifestreams. “web citizens can voyeuristically peer into anyways life”? Since when is this important in life? What about sitting down to read a book, or a magazine, or the newspaper?I mean even talking on the telephone is becoming a bit retro these days (OK, OK, I know I am probably sounding my age which is closer to 60 than 50, but sometimes I have to rail against the speed of life in our “advanced society”.
Stop the world, I want to get off.
