Viva La Revolución

If you believe a recent Wired article, I’m starting this blog a few years too late. Blogs are done. Finished. Kaput. They’ve been tossed into the media dustbin, right on top of newspapers and television news.

In his article, Paul Boutin argues that social media, such as Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, have made blogs obsolete. Who has the time to craft well-written blog posts when you can get instant, 140-word gratification on Twitter?

If I totally agreed with Boutin, I suppose I wouldn’t have started this blog. In fact, I started this blog specifically because of social media.

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