Blogging Vs Microblogging

From blogging comes microblogging. 

A trade off between the relative depth of blogs versus the immediacy of microblogging. Don't think there is a yes or no answer to which will prevail or whether a comfortable equilibrium will be found.

If one does come out on top I think it will be down to changes in the social blogging environment and the what suits the needs of the information being transmitted. I don't think we'll see a blogging revolution, in that Blogger and Wordpress are going to go out of business overnight, the beauty of the web as it is that software can evolve and mould itself to whatever shape is needed.

Right from tomorrow onwards, it might be Milliblogging where you can only post only things like "LOL" or "^_^" ...That's all you'll get! How about blogs where you only get to put up 3 seconds of a song or 2 seconds of a video? Maybe one where you can only see a few of the pixels of a photo? I would prefer you picked up the phone and called me and we spoke about your day - or even better stop by and visit and I can hear all about your life. Got to go Twitter now and perhaps you can read something like - "Beyonce just drove past me!! Woohoo!"

Joining the world of microblogging like twitter, here comes pownce and rakawa. At first, I did not quite get what these microblogging stand for. Only 140 characters allow, small size of file uploading.... It's getting shorter and faster in a some way. I totally agreed your point. Someday, someone will create Millibolgging that only allows us to say "hi" ,"bye", or "WTF"

I am just wondering if these microblogging really work for social networking? Do they really making people get involved?

Microblogging will defeat the hard work of blogging. It's faster, easier, less time consuming, and has immediate rewards. 1 out of 3 bloggers would prefer twitter over their blogs if they could only have one of these services. Lifestreaming is the new protocol, perfect mix of blogging and chat.

So, which one would you prefer if you could only have one?

Resource reading on Blogging Vs Microblogging:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Blogging-Vs-MicroBlogging

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/39216
http://www.toputop.com/blog/microblogging-vs-blogging/


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Pownce.com
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