Blogging – Relevant or Redundant?

re: Blogging – Relevant or Redundant?

Bibble — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:39:28 GMT

I would certainly say that blogging wasn't redundant. More than 60% of my fixes and information these days doesn't come from "official" technical resources but rather from random forum postings and blogs. Most of those blog posts are over a year old or so and yet are still relevant to what I'm looking for.

Micro blogging is useful and fun (and currently trendy) but the likes of twitter etc don't have the same "permanent" feel to them as a blog does. Like you say this does have its downsides but the upswing is that the posts and information is all indexed and filed away for future use for who knows what purpose. How many micro-blogging sites do you read historical data for? Once a post has been made it has a life span of a few days at most.

I understand that most of the stuff on this site is not necessarily hardcore tech info or troubleshooting stuff but the information you post does still have more longevity than perhaps micro-blogging could do proper justice to.

re: Blogging – Relevant or Redundant?

Andy — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:49:37 GMT

I agree with Bibble and yourself, microblogging does seem more appropriate for transient data, blogs although they have a temporal aspect do have significant longevity. Blogs also fulfill the role of the lazy man's CMS.

With regards to going off topic, I absolutely hate blogs that do that. Your three areas of topic info are why I read this blog. Please start a separate blog (that I won't read) if you want to tell the world about a interesting donkey you met on holiday.

re: Blogging – Relevant or Redundant?

Andrew_Fryer — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:04:20 GMT

Guys thanks for this, if you are able to share addresses and t-shirt sizes then I can get you SQL 08 t-shirts

Andrew

(afryer @ microsoft.com)

Blogging, microblogging – where’s it all going?

Eileen Brown's WebLog — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:47:51 GMT

This made me smile especially in the light of Andrews comments about microblogging the other day. David’s