Thursday, October 30, 2008
Halloween Exclusive: How To Survive Being Dead
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"
–Mark Twain
From the obituaries. Wired magazine has proclaimed that blogging is dead.
Reasons why:
• Amateur journalism (see why it pays to hire a professional copywriter) and underground marketing campaigns drown out the voice of authentic bloggers.
• The people most likely to notice bloggers' hard work are the Internet hecklers whose comments to posts usually contain the word "sucks."
• The time it takes to blog an original post is better spent posting photos to Flickr, or microblogging in Twitter or Facebook.
So with it being Halloween, I thought I'd post a few other articles that have prematurely declared something dead or quoted someone making that statement.
1. Google Is Dead; Money.cnn.com
2. Network TV Is Dead; NewTeeVee.com
3. Video Games Are Dead; Gamasutra.com
4. The Mac Is Dead; Lowendmac.com
5. Bernie Mac Is Dead; that one turned out to be true
Kevin McIntosh is a freelance copywriter in the Nashville market. His work can be seen at www.KevinMcIntosh.com
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