In the first case, you can't kill blogging short of destroying modern civilization utterly. This is silly.
Consider that AM radio is still around, and if you look a little bit harder, you can find people sending morse code on the amateur radio bands.
Ok, maybe "kill" doesn't mean "eliminate". Then you're being sensationalist by using a word that doesn't mean what people think it means.
Secondly, taking the preceding paragraph as read, I find that since I've started using facebook, I have a lot less inclination to post stuff to my blog. I've thought more than once about shutting it down, and frankly the main reason I haven't is inertia.
The reasons for this are at least twofold: one, I think far more people see the stuff I post on facebook, and secondly, nearly all of the five or so people who actually read my wildly popular blog (snort) are also on facebook.
"A blog is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events."[wikipedia]
I would argue that twitter is actually a type of blogging. But even further than that, I really don't think Twitter is killing anything:
"Something I’ve noticed over the past few months...is bloggers being less active while spending more time on Twitter...is Ttwitter] delivering a one-two knock-out punch to blogs and blogging?"[article]
A) Many people are switching from blogging to Twitter.
THEREFORE
B) Twitter is killing blogs.
The author gives no specific evidence other than anecdotal references to people that are switching, and one business that benefitted from twitter.
There are many ways that twitter is better than blogging, but also many ways it is worse. The people that are switching are the ones that had messages that fit Twitter's style.
Twitter's brevity seems to me to be more suited to stating positions than stating the issues.
In the first case, you can't kill blogging short of destroying modern civilization utterly. This is silly. Consider that AM radio is still around, and if you look a little bit harder, you can find people sending morse code on the amateur radio bands.
Ok, maybe "kill" doesn't mean "eliminate". Then you're being sensationalist by using a word that doesn't mean what people think it means.
Secondly, taking the preceding paragraph as read, I find that since I've started using facebook, I have a lot less inclination to post stuff to my blog. I've thought more than once about shutting it down, and frankly the main reason I haven't is inertia.
The reasons for this are at least twofold: one, I think far more people see the stuff I post on facebook, and secondly, nearly all of the five or so people who actually read my wildly popular blog (snort) are also on facebook.