Thanks for popping over and good points there about the “cost” of blogging. I find that doing it over and above your other responsibilities both at work and at home can be a difficult balance. For me, its a kind of release which allows me to express myself, stimulate my intellect and interact with others. It keeps me sane and in touch with my other more creative side.

That’s a keen observation. Its kind of like a hybrid between blogs, IRC, and MSN. With Twittering, Jaiku-ing and Pownce-ing, we get small microposts which are interactive yet not to the immediacy of say MSN chats. Those who enjoy publishing will still do so through the longer blog formats, but as earlier alluded to, frequency may be reduced.

What I see happening is that people spend their time Twittering to their community, but use their blogs for long posts. So, yes, we’ll probably post less frequently, but it will be more meaningful.

Good to see you! I think its interesting to note that there are increasingly more professional or topic-oriented blogs arising in Singapore’s blogosphere. Food for one is very popular. So is fashion. I am sure there will still be the photo “whores” and the megalomaniacal bloggers around in time, but their prominence will be replaced by a gradual smoothening of the curve to mainstream bloggers.

Well, I think that one way to ensure greater sustainability is to blog on a lower frequency, or to do shorter posts. This is why I occasionally just put up photos and clever captions rather than feature length posts.

Its ultimately all about relationships, which is what human beings are made for.

Thanks for popping over. Nice term there – microcasting – which kind of describes the fragmentation of blog readershop and authorship into many small niche genres. Keeping up the momentum for blogging is not that easy with the multiple vicissitudes of hectic modern life demanding time from us. At some point of time, something got to give.

But yeah, its time to get on with life.

It’s time to get on with my life!

It’s sort of nice that the lustre of blogs are starting to die down in Singapore. perhaps this is where we only the top few remian, for the purpose of influence.

However, I think people will still maintain blogs to keep in contact with their own social circles, content becomes more specialised and micro-casted and most of our current broadcast models will change, perhaps to cater to how people choose to consume media?

exciting thoughts! oh yeah, great panel at IPRS2.0, i was there -) enjoyed myself.

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– brian