A clean well lighted blog

Blogging, says the New York Times, is on the wane. Facebook and Twitter reports the Times are now the preferred online choice for the younger generation.  

The Internet and American Life Project at the Pew Research Center found that from 2006 to 2009, blogging among children ages 12 to 17 fell by half; now 14 percent of children those ages who use the Internet have blogs. Among 18-to-33-year-olds, the project said in a report last year, blogging dropped two percentage points in 2010 from two years earlier.

It seems like only yesterday, but it was way back in 2004 that Merriam-Webster declared “blog” the word of the year.  So many people began blogging — to share dieting stories, rant about politics and celebrate their love of cats — that Merriam-Webster declared “blog” the word of the year in 2004.  The article leaves the impression there is little between cat blogs and the Huffington Post.  

Newspapers may be feeling a little gleeful at this waning development because for some newspaper people blogs are the handy target for their own complex reasons of decline. However its just evolution as one expert says of the Facebook,Twitter and blog situation.

“Rather than being competitors, they are complementary […]“There is a lot of fragmentation ,but at this point, anyone who is taking blogging seriously — they’re using several mediums to get a large amount of their traffic.”

 

There is a distinguished touch of gray showing around blog banners. A 2010 study showed an increase of 16%, six points in a two year period with 34 to 45 year olds who use the internet to blog.  

5 thoughts on “A clean well lighted blog

  1. After all, it requires full sentences and paragraphs. Twitter and Facebook is made for the chronically ADHD-afflicted for whom the exchange of three letter abbreviations somehow constitutes communicating. I watch my son “interact” online and I am struck by how vapid is it.

    Let them have their flighty medium, leave the blogs to us old farts with the time and inclination to string together enough words to fill an editor window.  

  2. questionable. It really doesn’t matter what ‘most ppl’ of any generation are doing & means nothing. Those who really know or care what is going on are in the minority anyways, so this is no compliment.

    I too get news from NY Times, as well as many other sources. All of them have their own partisan agendas, are run by conglomerates or moguls which represent special interests & personal politics. Their aim is to keep the majority dumbed down & in the dark.

    Therefore the news is tainted & many sources including unconventional such as latenight are necessary, however flawed each source may be.

    Citizen journalism & online publications are the best & most reliable source for what is really hasppening which is why we are beginning to see an assault on this form of media, it is the power of the people.  

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