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Geek Blogging is in Decline

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the blog-isn't-a-dirty-word-anymore dept.

p0 writes " Geek blogging is in decline. Can the geek bloggers be saved? Saving is probably not the right word, because there is always going to be a market place for the Dave Winers of this world; it's just that their audience will continue to shrink in relation to market share in comparison to other existing, and yet to be written blogs. [New consumer] bloggers aren't going to be interested in Winer driving a car and finding free internet access, nor Scoble playing with alpha technologies with other geeks whilst seemingly camped out in someone's office."

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  1. Gentoo?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I use Gentoo; how does this affect me?

  2. You know it's over when .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You know it's over when .. A study comes out saying that women are better than men at it.

    It's like the first studies about internet usage, then all of a sudden it was "more women than men use the internet". The bitches didn't even know how to spell it, but now there were more of them, and they were better at it.

    Likewise for space travel, studies were brought out saying that women would make better astronauts.

    And now for blogging. All you get to hear about is women bloggers.

    It's a whole lot easier to jump on board a bandwagon that's been built by the men folk and pushed up the hill by the men folk, than it is to do the building and the pushing.

    Unless we're talking about child birth.

    So this end-of-geek blogging is just another expression of the bandwagon being so comfortable to ride in, even the women folk are good at it (riding that is)

  3. And the reason why... by petrus4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Blogging IMHO has probably never been a pastime of the genuinely intelligent. (And before I get flamed as a hypocrite, yes, I have a blog, but I haven't regularly updated it since March or so, and it was an effort back then)

    I probably only really got a Blogger account at all out of some vague, misguided desire to "stay current," but the main reason why I've virtually never used it is because I generally try and fill my time with far more productive things...like, say, working. ;)

    Blogging IMHO is probably the single most utterly useless convention to have appeared online so far. It seems to have primarily caught on in the US where, presumably because of the current fascist dictatorship which is euphemistically referred to as a democratic government, the population are enthusiastic about blogging as their only form of even partially genuine democratic expression. As for the rest of us, who live in countries where the system still actually works, (if only to a minor degree) we either engage in offline (read: effective) forms of activism, or devote our lives to far more constructive persuits.