This passenger seat doesn't pamper life's complexities
We’re embarking on a big social media push at work at the moment, reaching out to a number of social networking websites in the hope of being more web 2.0. However, all the talk of Facebook, blogs and Twitter has got me thinking: am I a web 1.0 has-been?
Online, I’m passive more than I’m active: I don’t create YouTube videos, I’m reticicent about putting comments on websites, I don’t update my Twitter or Facebook pages regularly, and I’ve left a number of half-dead blogs lying in my wake over the years.
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The two most popular blogs: Blogger and WordPress blogs
After smashing the bottle of champagne onto this blog and seeing it sail into harbour, I started to wonder how big the crowd was I have joined: just how many blogs are there?
Technorati’s 2008 ‘State of the Blogosphere’ report said there were about 133 million blogs. What do all these millions of personalised and corporate web journals represent? If the internet liberated publishing from the print model which allowed only a limited number of journalists (representing an even smaller number of owners/publishers) to have their views read, then blogs have taken this further, ensuring that the web was no longer the sole domain of geeks and programmers. Blogs allowed non-techie, non-journalists to pontificate on anything.
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Clarence, probably hearing an angel getting their wings. Or last orders.
Another blog is born. I think somewhere I hear a bell ringing. Or maybe that’s just titinitus. What’s my unique selling point, you may ask? I’m not a big one for confessionals. I don’t have any insider gossip on ANYTHING. And I don’t have a cat whose pictures I can parade in amusing poses.
Maybe it would be best to think of me as one of the crazies in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning, ranting about the end of the world. Only in this case, it would be about what would happen after the end of the world.
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