The other day I was reading an interesting post and it triggerd an instant thought process where in I wondered that with the proliferation of so many micro-blogging platforms (Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed etc) would people eventually be driven away from actual blogging or macro-blogging as I prefer to call for perfect contrast to micro-blogging.
It all started initially with Macro-blogging as it instantly picked up craze amongst experts and amateurs bloggers’ alike until during the journey microblogging platforms came up. Micro-blogging meant a nice platform specially for people who couldn’t keep up their blogging alive and their enthusiasm gave away (pun intended) soon after launching the blog. Expert bloggers’ took micro-blogging as another way to communicate their thoguths and knowledge to a closed bergeoning population.
Anyways, the crux of the matter is these are two platforms with overlapping populations; one may be a member on both however more active on one then the other. It becomes difficult to become active on both of them – unless you have nothing to go but sit at home and burn your ass – for each demands time and efforts to make it grow and work for you.
So, the question is which one you prefer and are addicted to?
What I see is, if you have your own blog and are active, people at large specially those who search and come to your blog are benefited from your content; however with micro-blogging your content, even if they are indexed, is confined to that particular platform or if you share among various other similar platforms.You can see the indexed link of a reply to one of my Twitter posts.
With micro-blogging what you write is short and forgotten quickly as you keep adding new snippets burring deep older posts. Your reputations is connected to outside world and you are more followed or have followers when you are well known in the blogsphere.
People can refer to your blog posts in their own contents but there is no way to refer your twitter/plurk posts. So, sharing your micro-blogging posts become difficult..
Let me know what you have to say about your addiction for either blogging platform….
