Are blogs still relevant?

Just saw this tweet from @kevinrose on Twitter:

hmm, Pownce (notes/files/links), Digg (stories), Twitter (short updates), FriendFeed (aggregated comments), do I still need a blog?

Just minutes before I saw this tweet I was having a discussion with a colleague that is thinking about shutting down his blog altogether in an attempt to regain focus on the things he considers important.

In my previous post, when I said I was evaluating how to keep this blog up as a reflection of what I’m about, I have to be honest that shutting this blog down was also one of my options. It’s been 5 years since I started it, and it’s been a good run, but it doesn’t completely feel like a good fit for me anymore.

It seems there’s a better way to share information. I hardly read RSS feeds anymore. I get all my links and information from tweets. All the blogs I truly care about tweet links to their posts, so RSS reading has almost fallen by the wayside for me as well.

So, you tell me. Am I jumping the gun here, or have blogs as we know them begun to lose their relevancy?

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Published:
07.09.08 / 12pm
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