Are blogs dead? Should they be replaced by Twitter, Flickr, & Facebook?

Recently, my friend, Matthew Cornell of http://ping.fm/GfcjZ Personal Productivity Specialist, asked me via LinkedIn....

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Are blogs dead? Should they be replaced by Twitter, Flickr, & Facebook?

I have a blog with a few thousand subscribers, and I've played with Twitter and Facebook, so I was surprised to read Paul Boutin's Wired article "Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004" [1] where he argues that blogs are a thing of the past for most of us. Do you agree? Should consultants like me drop their blogs, some of which we've poured 100s of hours of effort into? What's your best advice re: where to put invest our social collateral?


[1] http://ping.fm/erMg8

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Yes!

and....

No!

I think that question is like.... Are books dead... now that we have movies?

Or.... Will video conferencing eliminate travel?

No.... Of course not. These are all newer, more refined, different technologies... Filling different, if related, needs.

Blogs are perfect for longer-form articles.

Micro-blogging (Twitter et al) are perfect for short-form blogging. (As well as status updates, location updates, etc.)

I just discovered http://Ping.FM and I am IN LOVE!!!!!

It lets me write..... Short form.... or Long form... Blog..... Micro-blog... Status updates.... Location updates.... Even uploading Photo Albums.... all from one single console.... (the nicest one I've seen so far, btw)..... to

EVERY SITE OUT THERE!!!!!!

In one fell swooop....

I cannot emphasize the power of this enough.

This capability is as important as...... Remember back when EMAIL was separate...? Compuserve had email. The Source had email. And Genie had email. But none of them talked to each other....???

THIS IS BIG.

Centralized posting.

All of these tools just give you:

Broader Reach
More Flexibility in the Form you want to Express Yourself In

Sometimes, all you have time for..... in a quick one-liner....

Sometimes, all you have so far, are the pics....

Sometimes, you've taken the time to write a brilliant "article" on a topic...

I am now using http://Ping.FM to post ALL of those things.... to ALL of those places.

You will see ALL of it.... no matter whether you are one of my Wordpress Blog readers, a Facebook junkie, a Blogger reader, a MySpace freak, a Twitter Geek, a LinkedIn know-it-all :-) .....or whatever!

I am Everywhere! :-)