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February 21st 2011

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Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter

I notice a lack of data source on this statement of fact.

That’s a rather bold statement to make. I think the average Tumblr user is intelligent enough to know what blogging is and that it is what they are doing…

Posted at 9:23am and tagged with: blogging, people still do it,.

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The blurring of lines is readily apparent among users of Tumblr. Although Tumblr calls itself a blogging service, many of its users are unaware of the description and do not consider themselves bloggers — raising the possibility that the decline in blogging by the younger generation is merely a semantic issue.
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June 22nd 2009

Blogging Services

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I was checking out a blogging service called Squarespace today. I love the setup. I like the layout, and I even like the philosophy of ‘pay for what you get’. I just can’t bring myself to pay for a blogging service. I don’t post enough, nor do I consider myself important enough to have a paid blog. Even if it is only $8/mo.

I actually used to pay $5/mo for TypePad when I was in college and Wordpress was no longer doing it for me. It was a great service and the first one to offer stats on the iPhone, but it just doesn’t make sense to pay for something that you want to make free (disregard how hypocritical that might seem considering that I pay yearly for Flickr, even if it is far less expensive).

How does a site like Tumblr, which prides itself on not having adds that obfuscate the layout, monetize? Doesn’t it worry you that the community you contribute to so much every day is resting on the scaffold of a free service that has no incoming funding that doesn’t have strings attached?

Posted at 4:06pm and tagged with: blog, blogging, free, monetize, squarespace, tumblr, typepad, wordpress,.

October 20th 2008

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-Chris Alden Via Wired In response to why blogging has seen business increase during rough economic times.

More like “people like to bitch.”

…Myself included.

Posted at 5:09pm and tagged with: economy, wired, chris, alden, typepad, six apart, blogging,.

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When you don’t know where else to invest, you invest in yourself.
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