{"id":309,"date":"2008-02-28T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/02\/28\/ebbs-and-blogs\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T15:11:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T23:11:03","slug":"ebbs-and-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2008\/02\/ebbs-and-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebbs and Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the inter\u00adest\u00ading ses\u00adsions I went to at North\u00adern\u00adVoice<\/a> was the Blogs are Dead; Long Live the Blog\u00adger<\/a> ses\u00adsion facil\u00adit\u00adated ably by Chris Lott<\/a>. There\u2019s a write-up on this wiki<\/a>; as usu\u00adal a lot of thought-pro\u00advok\u00ading stuff was said, only some of which I\u2019ve found recor\u00added. I\u2019ve noticed changes myself over the last few years of observing part of the blog\u00adging world (by neces\u00adsity, only a small part). <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve noticed that lots of people aren\u2019t blog\u00adging as much, or indeed any more, for var\u00adied reas\u00adons. Some spend more time on twit\u00adter, which scratches their com\u00admu\u00adnic\u00ada\u00adtion itch, and effect\u00adively let their blog lapse. Some post no longer need to tell friends and fam\u00adily what they\u2019re up to via a blog. A fair num\u00adber of crafters are on Ravelry<\/a> and post their pro\u00adjects there and don\u2019t need a blog any more.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve noticed changes in the blogs, too; maybe because many people whose blogs I read are using twit\u00adter et al for the more \u201ctrivi\u00adal\u201d dis\u00adcus\u00adsions and thoughts, the blog post\u00adings tend to be about weight\u00adi\u00ader sub\u00adjects, or work-related. In many cases the tone is more form\u00adal and (dare I say it) bor\u00ading; I\u2019ve giv\u00aden up on quite a few blogs that used to be fun to read, even if the sub\u00adject mat\u00adter was incon\u00adsequen\u00adtial, because they now are more weighty and ser\u00adi\u00adous and not as enter\u00adtain\u00ading. Or they\u2019ve turned into col\u00adlec\u00adtions of links. The occa\u00adsion\u00adal link posts, with com\u00adments as to why those links are worth click\u00ading on, is fine, but I quickly tire of blogs that con\u00adsist solely of links to oth\u00ader blogs and art\u00adicles. I really can\u00ad\u2019t be bothered hanging on in the hope that the author will even\u00adtu\u00adally come up with some\u00adthing original.<\/p>\n

One big excep\u00adtion that I\u2019ve noticed is the craft\u00ading blogs, which (not\u00adwith\u00adstand\u00ading the people who\u2019ve quit now that they\u2019re on Ravelry) have much the same type of con\u00adtent. I star\u00adted a craft\u00ading blog<\/a> after join\u00ading Ravelry, and I know oth\u00aders who\u2019ve done the same. Many crafters see their blogs as a refresh\u00ading change from work, delib\u00ader\u00adately not talk\u00ading about top\u00adics out\u00adside the bound\u00adar\u00adies, keep\u00ading the dis\u00adcus\u00adsion focussed (more or less) on the ser\u00adi\u00adous craft\u00ading issues of types of yarn, wheth\u00ader the knit\u00adted object will fit once it\u2019s fin\u00adished, and the best way to cre\u00adate a par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar design or concept. Or just post\u00ading \u201cI did this this way and this is how it turned out.\u201d <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think the blog is dead; it\u2019s just chan\u00adging as the concept dif\u00adfuses out\u00adside the circle of early adop\u00adters who are busy twit\u00adter\u00ading at each other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the inter\u00adest\u00ading ses\u00adsions I went to at North\u00adern\u00adVoice was the Blogs are Dead; Long Live the Blog\u00adger ses\u00adsion facil\u00adit\u00adated ably by Chris Lott. There\u2019s a write-up on this wiki; as usu\u00adal a lot of thought-pro\u00ad\u00advok\u00ading stuff was said, only some of which I\u2019ve found recor\u00added. I\u2019ve noticed changes myself over the last few \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cEbbs and Blogs\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22,37,46],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-northernvoice","tag-nv08","tag-ravelry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}