The Blogging concept is already old. I myself started in 2004 and am blogging for over 6 years now. Lots of information I have placed online in dozens of blogs. The number of visitors decreases though. Everybody want fast access to the latest news and therefore uses the Social Networks (SN). When you integrate Blogs in Social Networks through RSS you reach the largest audience. Something I explain to informatic students all the time. Building such a net is what makes communication succesfull.
To blog or not to Blog isn't the question. Every Mail-Artists that is online knows a few blogs and eventually starts one for him/her-self. The final documentation of a Mail-Art project? I know that a lo0t of the old generation Mail-Artist don't like that idea. They put in their original artwork and send it by snail-mail, and all they get is being visible in a blog? They would prefer a printed catalogue instead. The factors time & money are changing the Mail-Art network for sure.
An example. I just documented the IUOMA Social Network by downloading the complete structure, all images and videos, blogs and posting and individual pages. A collection of 16 GByte that can just be placed on a CD of DVD. It is essential to archive the digital world as well. It has become more complex to keep everything accesible.
2 comments:
One thing to keep in mind, Ruud, is that people don't have to go to your blog to read it. I read your blog all the time, through the Bloglines feedreader, but I have come to your blog for the first time only today, and that is so I can post this note.
Geof
Hi Geof,
Glad you mentioned that. I do use the RSS feed as well to direct my postings to other places as well. So the information I publish is visible for a wider audience I know.
Personal comments are always appreciated. That doesn't happen a lot these days.
Ruud
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