I know I’m not blogging as much as I used to. Myself, those quick, passing thoughts that pop into my head are pushed out in 140 character bites instead of 200 word blog post, but what about everyone else?

By my read, “blogging” is on a downslide, and this is a good thing, but writing and reporting online using a blog engine as the platform is stronger than ever.

Maybe I’m splitting hairs, but what I’m seeing is a steady evolution and maturation of the online publishing community. Twitter fills a great gap between having mass email lists that clog your inbox (can you imagine an email list with 2,000 recipients and people constantly hit reply to all to chat with other members?) and IM (again, massive lists, lots of chatter, easier to ignore though). You can easily turn it off, direct messages come into email to get your attention, and if you want to just catch up on tweets directed to you a quick search will do the trick.

Online publishing, especially combined with the rapid dispersal possible with Twitter, is a powerfully strong way to speak your mind, show off your creativity, or even make a company like Amazon squirm. I’m still writing, and even writing a book on blogging (where I also note that I don’t care if it’s called “blurging” because it’s still writing), and intend on writing more and more (it’s only time that prevents me from doing this).

Face it, we all love fads and trends. Twitter is hot just like blogging was hot in 2005-7. Something else will be hot soon, so let’s just not forget that it’s what the tool does within the greater scheme of communications, media, publishing that matters in the end.

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