Blogging is not dead - it just got smaller!
Thursday, March 17, 2011 
There is a guilt associated with writing a blog. How long has it been since my last update? Am I blogging enough? Will I loose my audience (did I have one to start with)?
If I look at my own blog, I have found that the time between blog posts is getting longer and longer. It's not that my overall level of busyness is increasing - nor has my overall enthusiasm to publish diminished - so whats happening? In a word - microblogging.
I do the vast majority of my publishing today via microblogging services such as Twitter and Facebook. Fast, easy and bite sized. If I look to innovation in the social media space it all seems to be reinforcing short form content - Squarespace (microblogging with location) - Instagram (microblogging of pictures). In addition, my current attention for video (a la YouTube) is about 3 minutes. Any longer and I'm bored.
So is long form content going the way of the dodo? Are we conceding defeat to our mild cases of ADHD?
Stay tuned for my next blog post - it just might take a while.
