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August 11, 2009
Our Blogs Are Still Here
I've been thinking, and reading, that Twitter (and other newer tools) are great and all, but that blogs—simply put, Web pages that can hold as little or as much content as we want: excerpted and linked, or all original thoughts; trite and fluffy, or deeply serious—are still the place to both record and locate online content.
With that in mind, I've attempted to find a few moments here and there to inject some energy back into this blog, even as I am starting a new one. (The TN03 blog will simply carve out a piece of what would normally go here, though.)
Zeitgeist being what it is, I noted with interest Dave Winer's sympathy-laden missive to Robert Scoble yesterday, after the announcement that Facebook is buying FriendFeed.
Our blogs are still there, as is the web and the Internet. They never went away just because we foolishly flirted with something fast and easy and seductive. Our blogs never went away, they're still ready to share our ideas and connect us with others.We'll go back to basics now, take what we learned from this round of innovation, and build it for real this time.
I'll leave the "building" part to the experts, and I eagerly await what they create. I want to provide a resource-intensive service here, and I think a blog should still be a part of that. Obviously I'm not as old-school as someone like Dave Winer (or, locally, Mike Kelley), but I think I have an orange coffee cup sitting around here somewhere, and I want to fill it with all the Tennessee electoral goodness I can find.
Thanks for staying around.
About Blogs | By joe lance | 12:31 PM