Is Live-Blogging Dying?
No doubt, many will live blog their New Year’s Eve celebrations in the United States. Live blogging, started to make unreachable events more accessible, has become over-done and risks becoming like analog TV in 2009: off-the-air.
We’ve all read live-blogs of tech announcement open to just the press or natural tragedies happening a world away, but providing blow-by-blow accounts of readily accessible goings-on “is almost entirely pointless,” according to Canada’s
“Those who can’t fathom watching something on television without another person’s witty commentary should just invite a friend over,” writes Rebecca Tucker.
Live-blogging fit in nicely with the seeming need to post first and post often, two practices seen as answers to competing with larger blogs with multiple writers and advertising revenue dictated by the number of pageviews.
That frenzy of activity may thankfully be slowing giving way to ’slow blogging’ that prizes quality commentary or though-out discourse over brief snarkish notes written in the heat of emotions. If 2008 was the year of snarky blogs, hopefully 2009 puts a premium on quality.
(This story orginally published in The Blog Journal.)
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