"The Blog Is Dead, Long Live The Blog"

The Blog Is Dead, Long Live the Blog

“The Stream might be on the wane but still it dominates. All media on the web and in mobile apps has blog DNA in it and will continue to for a long while.”

Jason Kottke | December 19, 2013

Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In 2014, people will finally notice. Sure, blogs still exist, many of them are excellent, and they will go on existing and being excellent for many years to come. But the function of the blog, the nebulous informational task we all agreed the blog was fulfilling for the past decade, is increasingly being handled by a growing number of disparate media forms that are blog-like but also decidedly not blogs.

Source: http://www.steamfeed.com/guest-blogging-dead/

<more at http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/12/the-blog-is-dead/; related links: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2015/01/blogging-isnt-dead-old-school-blogging-definitely-dying (Blogging Isn't Dead. But Old-School Blogging Is Definitely Dying. January 31, 2015) and https://gigaom.com/2015/01/31/blogging-is-very-much-alive-we-just-call-it-something-else-now/ (Blogging is very much alive — we just call it something else now. January 31, 2015)>