Has blogging jumped the shark?

hehehe…

Mathew, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry – you may be right, the term is getting thrown around quite a bit. On the flip side today, I ran across what I’ll call arrogant ignorance regarding blogging “why would I want a blog in addition to a web site?” with the person refusing to even hear what a blog is for.

Thanks!

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Actually, “Family Circus” is sometimes now written by the original cartoonist’s son, and you can often tell the difference – this was almost certainly one of those.

But blogging has definitely transitioned, from “in-crowd” to “serious sucker bait”. Whether you want to call that “jumping the shark”, or “business opportunity”, is a matter of perspective.

I will disagree and say we haven’t even hit the ramp yet, let along jump the shark. The term “blogging” is everywhere but my anecdotal research concludes most people don’t know what a blog is and most business people (non-tech business) don’t have a clue as to how to incorporate blogging.

I firmly fit into the latter just a couple of months ago but undertook plenty of research + attending mesh to figure it out. Most of my peers haven’t made that jump.

Best,
George

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[...] Cartoons like this made Mathew Ingram wonder whether blogging has jumped the shark. With the whole PayPerPost mess its hard to argue that it hasn’t. I start to wonder whether media itself has jumped the sharp. [...]