Comments on: Blogging Making Comeback Over Microblogging? http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogging_making_comeback_over_microblogging/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:23:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: greg http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogging_making_comeback_over_microblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-540650 greg Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:03:54 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=29130#comment-540650 Talk about the attention spans of gnats. We're already to toss out blogs as last year's trash now that we have microblogging in hand. That's just foolish -- it's as if we expect the introduction of the four-minute YouTube video to eliminate the Hollywood movie. Does anyone keep a rational perspective anymore instead of wanting to go all-in on the Internet's next incarnation of Pointcast? (Remember THAT? Oooh, push technology...) The fact there's even a discussion about this underscores that there's too much navel-gazing going on here. Talk about the attention spans of gnats. We're already to toss out blogs as last year's trash now that we have microblogging in hand. That's just foolish -- it's as if we expect the introduction of the four-minute YouTube video to eliminate the Hollywood movie. Does anyone keep a rational perspective anymore instead of wanting to go all-in on the Internet's next incarnation of Pointcast? (Remember THAT? Oooh, push technology...)

The fact there's even a discussion about this underscores that there's too much navel-gazing going on here.

]]> By: Dave Schuler http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/blogging_making_comeback_over_microblogging/comment-page-1/#comment-540631 Dave Schuler Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:18:16 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=29130#comment-540631 Basically, I think I'm too old to “get” Twitter. I was already in graduate school when the first episode of Sesame Street was broadcast, watching it with some of my colleagues, and noting that it would be likely to reduce the attention span of a lot of kids who watched it. I just don't find tweets that interesting or exciting. Basically, I think I'm too old to “get” Twitter. I was already in graduate school when the first episode of Sesame Street was broadcast, watching it with some of my colleagues, and noting that it would be likely to reduce the attention span of a lot of kids who watched it. I just don't find tweets that interesting or exciting.

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