Wired Magazine Suggests Bloggers To Give Up the Fight
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... The article says - "Today, a search for, say, Barack Obama’s latest speech will deliver a Wikipedia page, a Fox News article, and a few entries from professionally run sites like Politico.com. The odds of your clever entry appearing high on the list? Basically zero." ...

Are blogs obsolete?
TechBlog — ... In a very odd essay in the latest issue of Wired magazine, a writer for the blog Valleywag urges other bloggers to kill their blogs . Hmmm. It appears that Paul Boutin hasn't practiced what he preaches. In a June 21st post on his personal blog, he proclaims that he's now landed his ...

Blogs are so over, Wired magazine says
mathewingram.com/work — ... Hey, didn’t you hear? Blogs are so 2004. They’re dead now, says Paul Boutin (who also writes for Valleywag) in a piece he wrote for Wired magazine. Here’s his argument (such as it is) in a nutshell: ...

Kill Your Blog [Wired Magazine]
Gawker: valleywag — ... @WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook? That's all you need to read from my essay at the front of Wired's new November issue. The rest is good, thanks to stellar editing, but these days a 600-word essay — and a headline like "Kill Your Blog" — only stand out in print. See? They changed it online. ...

Should You Stop Blogging?
WebProNews Feed — ... Some Think So. Wired has posted an already-controversial article about how blogs are "so 2004", and how services like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr even are here to replace them. Writer Paul Boutin says: Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug. Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns ...

Future of Blogging - Blogging is Changing For The Better - It’s About Collaboration
Furrier.org - John Furrier's Personal Blog — ... Paul Boutin wrote a post today saying that blogging is so 2004 using Jason Calacannis and Robert Scoble as proof points that it’s dead. ...

Blogs Are So Over? LOLOLOL
SmoothSpan Blog — ... No sooner do I pen my anti-curmudgeonly Enterprise 2.0 piece than the blogosphere is awash with the antics of another curmudgeon.  This time its Paul Boutin, a professional Valley Wag blogger, who writes (in a blog for Wired Magazine), that blogging is over.  It’s so 2004.  Here is his version of what replaces blogging: ...

Quoted
GMSV — ... the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.” – Paul Boutin , who among other things blogs for Valleywag, casts his ...

Angry Blogger Says Blogs Are Dead
SocialTimes.com — ... Paul Boutin, who happens to be a correspondent for Valleywag, has posted an article on Wired suggesting that launching your own blog is pretty much worthless at this point. His rationale? Pretty much the same rationale that is passed around time and time again. The primary leaderboards for blogs around the web, suggest that you can’t become a large blog as an individual. ...

Kill your blog, says Valleywag blogger … in print
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... tired old medium of print, courtesy of Wired. At the centre of this little set of Russian nesting dolls is, of course, a tweet. Which, he says, is all you need to read: @WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook? > > Take him at his word. You've read the tweet, so there's no need to check the blog post or the Wired essay. But of course, plenty of people will. He got me, didn't he? Once you've ...

Paul Boutin Has No Substance To His Blog Argument, Shame On Wired
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... Did Paul Botin just write an article on Wired telling everyone to shutdown their blogs just because Jason Calacanis stopped blogging and because of comment hecklers?  Yes, he went there.  Also note that if it wasn’t for blogs, Botin wouldn’t have a job at Valleywag right now either.   ...

Blogging Isn’t Dead, But Linking May Be Broken
SitePoint — Paul Boutin, a writer for Silicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag caused a stir today when he published a piece of linkbait in Wired advising people to pull the plug on their blogs. “Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge,” he writes “Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible ...

Being An MIT Dropout Doesn’t Save Boutin From Being An Idiot
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... According to the incredible wisdom of Boutin it is something that is so 2004 and has been replaced by better things like Facebook, Twitter and other such intellectually stimulating forms of idea sharing. Of course we would never see any marketing taking place on the hallowed ground of Facebook, especially in the “Pepsi Lovers Kill the Coke Lovers” group. Or how about the purity of Twitter were we would never get 140 character invitations to see some pretty girl’s pictures she took just for you. No, it is ...

Blogging about blogging
Know It All — ... that last aspect as "writing in 3-D"). Meanwhile, Paul Boutin says blogging is dead. There's a point beneath the hyperbole about the profusion of social media tools, but don't read this one too literally. ...

Twitter could push blogs into the history books
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... The irony is not lost on me. In fact it's the deep irony of blogging about the death of blogging that proved irresistible. In keeping with this new media conundrum, the the imminent death of the blog is raised in an online story over at Wired. ...

AOL Applauds Its Own Blog Success
Bloggers Blog: Blogging the Blogsphere — ... DownloadSquad, http://downloadsquad.com, GreenDaily, http://greendaily.com, Luxist, http://luxist.com, and others. AOL also plans more blog brands and more international blogs. Over the next 12 months, AOL plans to launch of number of new blog brands in important consumer interest areas, as well as aggressively continue the expansion of its blogs internationally. AOL clearly would not agree with Paul Boutin's recent essay but we all know that article was primarily linkbait anyway. Permalink | ...

Is the Original Blogging Dead?
Fast Company - Technology — ... , blogging is out and being replaced by the next generation of social networking tools - Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. In a recent WIRED Magazine article , Boutin says that the mainstream media has taken over the blogosphere with professional writers, who break the big stories these days. “Scroll down Technorati's list of the ...

Hugh MacLeod: “Blogs aren’t dead, people are”
The Next Web — ... starts in less than an hour and the program is full of rock’n'roll bloggers who will talk about the various aspects of blogging from different angles. Blogs are alive and kicking, in contrast to the provocative Wired article that ...

Apple Stock Hit Twice By Bloggers
WebProNews Feed — ... , warning about the potential impact of misinformation on society, has called for a system for vetting websites and labeling them trustworthy or not so that the thinking of cults can be suppressed. Wired ...

Follow Us on Twitter!
AppScout — Hey Twitter users: follow @AppScout and @Gearlog to get blog updates sent straight to your Twitter feed! You can also follow @PCMag for updates on the best stuff from that site, and if you have a favorite tech writer at PCMag/AppScout/Gearlog, you'll probably find him/her in @PCMag's follow list. Hey non-Twitter users: What're you doing here? Don't you know blogs are dead? Get on Twitter!

Follow Gearlog on Twitter!
Gearlog — Hey Twitter users: follow @AppScout and @Gearlog to get blog updates sent straight to your Twitter feed! You can also follow @PCMag for updates on the best stuff from that site, and if you have a favorite tech writer at PCMag/AppScout/Gearlog, you'll probably find him/her in @PCMag's follow list. Hey non-Twitter users: What're you doing here? Don't you know blogs are dead? Get on Twitter!

Blogs on their way out?
Lost Remote — ... Wired magazine had an interesting and humorous article about how blogging is so 2004. It’s all Twitter now. It’s timely because so many newsrooms are trying to figure out what to do with their blogs. Most are still yet to take off and many contain the same type of content you would find on the rest of the site. It’s also timely considering Lost Remote’s ...

Surprise! Blog Comments Marketing Is Not Dead.
Profy — ... I think the most intriguing article I’ve read over the last week was the one where Wired magazine told the world that blogs were so old-fashioned that no one should expect to launch and grow a new blog big enough to be noticed at all any more. I can honestly tell this is one of the best things I’ve read in quite a while and I can agree with Valleywag’s writer Paul Boutin (who authored the article for Wired) that the space is definitely too crowded and for the majority of people safe harbors like Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr must be perfectly enough for ...

Who killed the blogosphere?
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog — ... of the blogs have front pages larger than a half megabyte. The main culprits behind the bloat are image files, which have proliferated as blogs have adopted the look of traditional news sites. The top 100 blogs have, on average, a whopping 63 images on their front pages. As blogs have become mainstream, they've lost much of their original personality. "Scroll down Technorati's list of the top 100 blogs and you'll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones," writes one corporate blogger, Valleywag's Paul Boutin, in the new Wired. "Most are essentially ...

The blogosphere is alive, well and kicking
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... The latest round of blogging/ blogosphere is dead angst started with a classic piece of link bait from Paul Boutin in Wired, and was followed up this week ...

Tumblr Raises $4.5 Million Second Round; Staffs Up, Preps Premium Model
paidContent — If blogs are over, tumblelogs never even got going. But that isn't stopping Tumblr, short-form scrapbook blogging's biggest exponent, from raising a $4.5 million second VC round. Beefing up, the outfit is adding former Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) technology SVP John Borthwick to its board and former CNET director John Maloney as president. The investment is led by Spark Capital and involves Union Square Ventures, who together led Tumblr's $775,000 first round. Part way between a blog and a Twitter microblog, a tumblelog is a ...

My Favorite Articles and Blog Posts from 2008. Which Are Yours?
Profy — ... many people working in the industry this post was the first sign of a recession actually arriving as even the prominent Sequoia demonstrated we did have lots of factors to be afraid of. After this post we have seen numerous others about various things that were going wrong in the tech industry because of the financial crisis - layoffs and closures have been reported everywhere - but this one seemed to be the very first indicator of the fact that Silicon Valley is in trouble. Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004, Paul Boutin, Wired Magazine Valleywag ...

Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up
TechCrunch — ... Only a year ago, the conventional wisdom was that blogs were dead and microblogging would soon replace them. Twitter was supposed to kill blogs because it’s so much simpler to publish one sentence fragment at a time rather than whole thoughts bunched together into what is known in the trade as “paragraphs.” ...

WordPress VS Twitter – It’s No Contest!
Podcasting News — ... Last year, for example, Wired magazine’s Paul Boutin weighed in on the subject, arguing that Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004. ...