Mike Butcher - mbites

I've noticed a number of bloggers, myself included, who while not exactly deserting their blogs, are certainly leaving them fallow for longer periods than they were a year or two back. I've been thinking along similar lines to yourself. The 'space' is certainly going through a very interesting - and far more relevant to your ordinary Joe - period of development. Mike, you say "If you already have 300 mates on Facebook, why bother trying to reproduce that traffic and capital outside?... I suspect the big test of this will be when there is a smash hit user on Facebook who, after garnering a million "friends" realises all the content they generated is invisible to the rest of the Net" I think this focus on traffic, hits and the like is really missing the point. That's blogweb thinking. Blogs and all that were always about connecting people, nattering about stuff. Now there are better ways to do it. And traffic and hits have nothing to do with it. They're simply not relevant. Technorati ranking and all that was always irrelevant anyway. Now it's obsolete. However, at the moment this kind of analysis is very difficult to be objective about. So, I'm not. I look at my friends use of the net and my own. I read blogs the same as ever, but I blog far less, I twitter far more. And I can't remember the last time I checked my stats.