A blog post about a blog post about the decline of blogging
Posted: Mon 02.27.2012 Filed under: Debate, Reflection | Tags: global, information sharing, social media, technology, tools 2 Comments »
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“The rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” — a misquotation of a Mark Twain quotation
During grad school, I wrote a paper on e-books and why they had not risen to popularity as quickly as anticipated and why the technology had not progressed more rapidly. I think I probably referenced this quotation in that paper because my conclusion was that, though e-books had not yet taken off as trend-trackers had expected, they should not be discounted. They were not dead yet.
In the last year, there has been a whole lot of discussion on the Internet regarding whether print books are dead and whether libraries are dead.
Earlier this month, a report from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research stated that, for the first time, an overall decline in blogging has been registered in the 500 fastest growing organizations in the U.S. In announcing the report, Information Today Europe produced an interesting post entitled “A blog post about the decline of blogging”, which in turn inspired the choice of title for this post.
