jank0: By tis rate, I'm going to have more followers on Google Plus than on Twitter next week.
With Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and countless other options, blogging isn’t quite what it used to be.?I wanted to know what he thought about the name change (to Google Blogs) and what exactly is the future of blogging. Williams replied to me and I am sharing with you the excerpts of an email he sent me.
I’m guessing if you talked to folks at Blogger or WordPress (see disclosure), they’d say the numbers are bigger than ever, which makes it a difficult case to say classic blogging is gone.I think what’s changed is that “blogging as we knew it” is no longer the easiest way to express oneself online, so it is not the choice for the most casual users.
You have to be a bit more dedicated to blog than to tweet or post on [Facebook] now and then. Maybe that means the active blogging user base is only tens of millions of people, globally, instead of hundreds of millions for these other services.
Regarding the rumored Blogger name change: It’s kinda sad for me and those involved with Blogger, but I can see the argument why it makes sense for Google. The good news is, whatever the name, Blogger is getting better and is not going way.
The saddest part is that the Blogger [b] logo, created by Derek Powazek (later refreshed by Doug Bowman) is one of the best web logos of all time. Hopefully they won’t get rid of that. :)
Williams, who recently joined up with Biz Stone and Josh Goldman to start Obvious Corp, is sad about Blogger, and so are many others. I was an early adopter of the service and then a pro subscriber. It was like Dave Winer’s pioneering Userland product, and a key part of my blogging journey, something I outline in this post, How Ev, Dave, The Trotts & Matt changed my life.
More on that later, but in the interim enjoy these articles from the archives:?
Disclosure: Automattic, maker of WordPress.com, is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True.
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