Jagalicious Fresh

I’ve been working at Murky Coffee most of the afternoon today. Mostly because if I were at home, I’d be too tempted to do things like laundry, dishes, and watch Star Trek: Voyager on my TiVo, but also cause they have awesome coffee and I love the environment. It’s a little after 5, and just for kicks I thought, “Hey, I should post something.”

And that’s when I realized that blogging, just as a personal medium, is dead.

It used to be when you found something cool online, or you had something you wanted to share, be it a website or a video or even just a personal thought, you posted about it to your blog. But why? I’ve twittered hundreds of times since my last blog entry. I’ve posted tons of items to my Facebook Posted Items feed, three today alone. Between those two mediums alone, more people have seen things I’ve posted than have visited this website.

I’m not bitching, mind you; frankly, it’s a more effective method of spreading things online, and better targets it to your friends and family. The blog is almost an afterthought. “Blogging is dead” might be a somewhat incendiary headline. Political blogs, news blogs, tech blogs, etc. aren’t going anywhere, and they shouldn’t. But having a personal blog is quickly becoming an afterthought. Why bother when a twitter feed and facebook page are so easy to set up?

So there’s my tri-weekly post. We’ll see what happens next