Comments on: You can’t “do” blogs half fast!

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By: emersondirect

emersondirect — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:51:50 +0000

@Allan, attention as in to, “before I start a conversation with you, I have to know you?” Please explain.

@Jesse That’s a great point, Twitter is increasing the intimacy factor.

By: Jesse Luna

Jesse Luna — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:03:10 +0000

Great topic. There’s definitely a link between micro-blogging and the decrease in blog post activity. Hearing “I don’t blog anymore since being on Twitter” is a fairly common thing to hear.

I think that “intimacy” is also a factor. If you’ve been following someone on Twitter, let’s say, you really do get to know a lot about that person. So as a commenter, you have many more insights than someone who stumbles across the blog or even someone who has read the blog for a while.

This issue came up just yesterday where I read someone’s blog post and tried to come up with a comment, but I “knew too much” about the person. In addition, this was posted to a major third party news blog so other issues came into play.

I ended up sending the author a 40 character tweet on Twitter instead.

By: Allan

Allan — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:50:42 +0000

Marc,

“… if we’re to extend the conversations beyond a micro-blogging platform and bring them back to blogs, we need to see that you have … interest in your blog post and you’re not posting just for … link juice … .”

But don’t you think, inorder to start a conversation, there has to be a given amount of ‘attention’ in place?