If you’re reading my first article, you either know me personally, you’ve been spammed by me on facebook or twitter or you’re the first person to find my site through Google (which means you’ve clicked on 42 other links that didn’t match your querry). In any case, you’re probably thinking “why the hell is this guy bragging about launching a blog in 2010?”
Blogs have been mainstream for a good 5 years, or about a third of the Web’s lifespan. So in essence, it would be as if I decided to come out with a new model of terrestrial globe while millions of people are wasting their time trying to find themselves on google street view.
18th century terrestrial globe
In fact, I was inspired by a conference given by Bill Ives at webcom09 called “blogging in the age of twitter” where he defended the thesis that twitter will not destroy blogging but in fact encourage it.
Indeed, whereas microblogs like twitter and social networks like facebook are taking over as the sexy items in an online marketer’s toolbox, the fact remains that neither of these tools can provide any meaningful piece of content for others to consume. In fact if we were to grossly generalize how twitter is being used, we could say that 25% of tweets are general comments, 25% lead to the author’s blog or website, and 50% lead to other blog articles, youtube videos and other cat related time-consuming information sources. Therefore as twitter grows stronger, especially here in Canada where everything takes an extra 2 years to catch on, the rationale behind starting a blog becomes even stronger.
More people are navigating through the web using search engines, and more people are receiving tweets inviting them to consume information on other sites. And what sites generally have the best performance on search engines and hold the most interesting information for twittaholics?
Good ol’ fashioned traditional blogs!
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Next, you’re on for a lipdub!
You should already have a skyblog …
Where were you these last 10 years?
(I found your blog via a retweet (for your stats))
@Julien: My point exactly! As you see in my about section I was too busy doing academic work in history and not being cool enough to either have a blog or twitter account, let alone know what it meant. Now look at me: 60 people are following on twitter and I have 2 comments on my blog. Things are looking up. But more seriously, what’s so much better about a skyblog?
Found via Briac RT on twitter
Enjoy bloging ! Good luck and thanks for the graphic
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I found you in my google analytics stats ; )
we’re listening!!
lol Pierre tu lis mes tweets
Fantastic Phil!
I found you on Twitter, keep it going I am listening too!
Mais il est top ce site….
Je m’interroge juste sur le fait qu’en marquant ton nom et et prénom sur google je ne puisse acceder directement à ton site web? C’est SEO tout ça?
@Adriana: thanks!!
@Adrien: patience, patience. D’ailleurs ca me donne une idée pour un prochain post: pourquoi un site ne peut pas être SEO dès son lancement!!!