A handy chart of search activity on “blogs” and “social media”:
At first glance, Google Trends appear to indicate blogging is on the way out. Ye olde webbe logge is so 2004, after all.
But I don’t think a wholesale abandonment of blogging is underway. Instead, prior to 2008 people used blogging software as a crude social network. Once facebook arrived with a better product for that sort of thing some demographics no longer blogged, leaving the blogosphere to people whose activities were a better match to the tools.
In any case, Facebook’s dominance is now absolute:
You know about insects and ultimate frisbee, right?
😀
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/insects-totally-caused-ultimate-frisbee/
Ha! I forgot about that. Hilarious!
*snicker*
Try Facebook, ants
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=facebook,+ants&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Is it over or did myrmecophily never get off the ground?
Have just found you on NBN. Could offer harvester ants? Does NBN bring you more readers? Some you didn’t have before?
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Interesting. As an aside, Quora is very much alive. Matan Shelomi just won a Shorty Award for bug answer. http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/matanshelomishortyaward.html
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I drop a leave a response whenever I especially enjoy a article on a site or I have something to valuable to contribute to the conversation. Usually it’s caused by the sincerness communicated in the article I browsed. And after this post %BLOGTITLE%. I was excited enough to post a thought 🙂 I actually do have 2 questions for you if it’s okay. Is it only me or do a few of the remarks look like left by brain dead folks? 😛 And, if you are writing on other online sites, I would like to keep up with everything new you have to post. Would you list the complete urls of all your social sites like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?