Educational Leadership & Technology

First, trust me, I see the irony about writing a blog post about blogging being dead. I wrote it for all the bloggers out there, not for myself. Second, just as God was declared dead quite some time ago, and billions of people are still going to churches, mosques, and temples, I doubt that my proclamation will stop many people from blogging. So then…

“Why,” you ask, “why is blogging dead?” Blogging is the Internet’s newspaper. Just look at the competition — multi-media, video, Twitter, and podcasting websites all offer a richer exeperiences to the audience than blogs. Sure there will be some old professors somewhere in universities that continue blogging, but the majority of us will move on to other forms of communication. We will use Twitter, PodOmatic, and YouTube to micro blog, podcast, and share our self created videos. Who will blog? And more importantly why? With more and more teachers assigning blogs to students and grading the blogs like assignments, less and less students will blog for pleasure or personal reflection. It will become just another assignment to do and, as Clay Burell said, “It will be full of too much schooliness.” So goodbye blogs! Rest in peace.