11 February, 2010

Blogging taken over by Microblogging?


You know the buzz.

Blogs seem to be experiencing a slow and painless death with the advent of more and more attention given to microblogs. Twitter has revolutionized web publishing in a way that enables people with short attention spans and bad writing skills to appeal towards a wider scope of readers.

Previously, blogs would garner readers through insightful articles, photos with captions that tell a story, or just plain inane rant that has some entertainment value. Most blogs were carefully crafted to reflect the personality of its author; creating a persona and online presence that can mirror (or even replace) newsfeed websites or fullblown corporate online entities. It seems that we humans reel from all that brain activity and now divert our energies to simple, more condensed versions of internet publishing - maybe because people are just too darn lazy to read anymore, or just too darn lazy to type.

Twitter, with only 120 words max for every post - forces people to shorten every bit of information and cram it all into a one, sometimes badly written sentence. In the next few years to come, and probably a breaststroke towards the future; news and communication would just mirror those bad one-liners your get in B-grade direct-to-video popcorn flicks.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you have copy writer for so good articles? If so please give me contacts, because this really rocks! :)

Joshua Boey said...

unfortunately I have no copywriter, though It would be nice to get someone else to write my articles.

If you need any copywriting done just give me a buzz =)