Posts tagged ‘blogging’
I couldn’t stay away. After three years of lovingly tending these sites, I couldn’t sever the connection completely, and besides, I’d always wanted to try my hand as a real blogger.
So, starting yesterday with a post about the amazing new 27″ iMac and a few posts today about some neat Web based tools, I will also be blogging at Download Squad and occasionally TUAW, two of the best blogs in the world in the realm of software and Apple products, respectively.
Bring it on, trolls!
A couple weeks ago at the Gospel Coalition Conference, I was fortunate to attend the Band of Bloggers lunch and hear some high profile bloggers speak a bit about different aspects of blogging as a Christian. For some reason, I couldn’t help but think of what I might share, given such an opportunity. What follows is the result of that pondering. Read the rest of this entry »
Living in a college town, and being a fairly socially active person, I hang out with a relatively large amount of college students (ages 19-24ish…). Recently I’ve realized a fairly significant generation gap.
I was sitting in room with about 20 college students and asked them how many of them read blogs. The general reaction was along the line of “isn’t that cute, the old guy thinks we still read blogs.” Sort of a bemused head shaking. They were well aware of blogs, they just don’t ever read them.
I know that if you expand this group out to about 100 college-aged-people, you get maybe 2 or 3 who are HUGE fans of two or three (or ten) blogs and are avid readers, but the rest don’t bother.
They spend all day on Facebook, almost literally.
Nobody IMs anymore. They text. (er… txt…)
They rarely use e-mail, except for work in which case it’s a necessary evil.
People still watch TV…
…and play a ton of video games.
So, blogs, which are my business, have become mainstream, and have captured the attention of big media, but are losing the attention of the emerging generation. What’s next?
You might have seen that I’ve been playing around with Tumblr at omni.mattheerema.com – using it to compile most of my different soc.net and blog feeds into one location. Not sure how useful it is, but it’s fun to play with. Tumblr has some great posting tools too. Maybe someday I’ll switch to it as a blogging platform entirely, it fits my style better. Short, media driven posts, rather than long articles (which I never write).
One major thing that has held me back from going all Tumblr is their lack of comments.
Disqus has fixed that problem for me. I hope they stick around.
