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by mc_woods 929 days ago
No, blogging won't return. Not in the same way as before. In the days of the dial up modem the written word was king. Twitter originally had SMS as a communication mechanism. But look at what the younger generations do, the use the internet for 3D gaming, for video watching.

It's the same micro-attention span as a tweet, but the media has changed. In the immediate term it's video content. But this will also give way to the next thing...

But, unfortunately the written word requires more attention than modern internet users have to spare.

1 comments

There's still the same amount of intelligent, thoughtful, people with attention spans out there, you could still write for them, the same as always. You just wouldn't be writing for the masses anymore. But do you need to? Do you need your content to be applicable to everyone?