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Bilge pump

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I’m not going to take the linkbait laid by Paul Boutin in Wired Magazine telling us to quit blogging because the blogosphere has been “flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge” and that time is “better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter”. This has got a lot of coverage … because it’s bilge.

I don’t know about you, but I find it difficult to write anything on Flickr, Facebook is fine for socialising and Twitter is great for chat - and you can use them effectively for more serious purposes too; but they’re different tools and  don’t do what blogging does. So Paul Boutin can take his bilge elsewhere and I will continue blogging because it suits me.

By Nick Holmes, 24 October 2008
Filed Under Blogging 

Comments

4 Responses to “Bilge pump”

  1. Tessa Shepperson on 24 October 2008 6:19 pm

    Me too!

  2. Martha Sperry on 25 October 2008 2:00 am

    Right On! Here is my take (as a blogging lawyer) on the subject

    http://advocatesstudio.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/pull-your-blog/

    Cheers, Martha

  3. Charon QC on 26 October 2008 3:08 pm

    Agree with you. Read the Boutin article - not particularly well written.

    I waste time on twitter because it amuses me to do so - but I would not ever use Twitter for anything serious or sensible. It seems to me that many use Twitter either to market their own products, keep in touch or for fun - and why not.

    I shall continue to blog.

  4. Simon Deane-Johns on 28 October 2008 4:09 pm

    Blogging is fun precisely because it isn’t paid.

    But Twitter, now THAT’S bilge.

    Blog on, I say.

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