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# Are blogs really dead?
- URL: https://katecarruthers.com/are-blogs-dead/
- Published: 2009-08-23T21:05:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-01T03:52:12.000Z
- Author: Kate Carruthers
- Tags: ideas, blogs, collaboration, social computing & social media, social media, social networking, twitter, #Migrated-1775015344493, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-04-01 14:49

Some have argued that blogs have had their day, for example: [Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004](http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st%5Fessay?ref=katecarruthers.com).

> 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog?ref=katecarruthers.com)

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](http://www.blogger.com/?ref=katecarruthers.com), [Movable Type](http://www.movabletype.org/?ref=katecarruthers.com) or [Wordpress](http://wordpress.com/?ref=katecarruthers.com) \- for some users?

Along side this we are seeing the evolution of newer platforms like [Tumblr](http://www.tumblr.com/?ref=katecarruthers.com) and [Posterous](http://posterous.com/?ref=katecarruthers.com) 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](http://wave.google.com/?ref=katecarruthers.com)) is going to be very interesting.

You can check out [my Posterous](http://katec.posterous.com/?ref=katecarruthers.com) \- 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 ;)