Some have argued that blogs have had their day, for example: Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004.

A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary … en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

I still think that some topics need more than 140 characters, and some topics call for a narrative integration & dialogue not open to us in many of the briefer social media platforms like Twitter or Facebook posts.

But perhaps we are seeing a move away from the old fashioned blog – e.g. Blogger, Movable Type or WordPress – for some users?

Along side this we are seeing the evolution of newer platforms like Tumblr and Posterous that are changing the way we can easily share different forms of content. They seem to sit between a short message sharing medium and a traditional blog, and they also easily incorporate multimedia content.

Seeing how all this will feed into other new stuff (like Google Wave) is going to be very interesting.

You can check out my Posterous – have been signed up for ages but had not really played with it much until recently.

NB: I am conscious of the irony inherent in a discussion about the death of blogs on a blog – it’s almost as amusing as reporting the death of newspapers in a newspaper 😉