Blog Off?
Last week, following my quick poll on blogging & tweeting, Gráinne Conole started an Is Twitter killing Blogging? discussion on Cloudworks. The excellent discussion has ended now but I’d promised I’d blog and very much wanted to sooner but finding the time… what with all that tweeting…
First, the overall results of my poll, which are based on 53 responses as I have removed the 7 respondents who have never blogged. Results in full
Interestingly, when I answered the poll I chose about the same but looking at my blog stats I now realise I should have said less! I wonder if any others made my mistake?
Many of the comments on Cloudworks ring true for me. Like Kate Boardman, Terry Wassall & others I’ve struggled to ‘find time’ to write blog posts. My August contribution to the VLE – PLE debate was one I’d mentally drafted following Graham Attwell’s keynote at April’s Plymouth Elearning Conference! I’m also finding, like Juliette Culver, that since my tweeting has increased I’ve been following feeds less and get to many blog posts via Twitter. However, as the majority of the bloggers that I follow also tweet this is not a problem for me. I also agree with John Pallister’s suspicion that many of the bloggers I follow have been blogging less recently which in some cases seems to be Twitter-related. Continue reading “Blog Off?”
