photo © 2009 Bull3t Hughes socialization -level, exchanging hugs and virtual friendships: the typical, so ethological (and thus human) "I am, you're there?" Works just fine on Facebook, Twitter or FriendFeed ;
- professional self-promotion, finding a new job or new clients: LinkedIn is done on purpose; reporting
links - interesting are much more efficient sites Delicious as a bookmarking , Diigo, Reddit ,
Digg, StumbleUpon - or the same Twitter ; photo galleries : your trip to Kuala Lumpur or Ben, the Spinone just adopted, the sweater to the irons, the book of antiques, that wonderful sunset, the zucchini in the garden ... all this can be shown more easily on Flickr, Picasaweb or Facebook ;
- trade small craft: Etsy is the place;
- graphic or musical creativity on display: MySpace , DeviantArt, and a host of other specialized social networks are perfectly equipped as needed;
the same - need to post often to avoid losing players was abolished by the spread of RSS feed readers and . clear: all this can still be done by your own blog, and in fact we are continuing to do so cheerfully. But I say that we are no longer
obliged to do so using the blog. - why the decline of blogging, and they appear less frequently with new post, I'm not - I think - signs of a real crisis of this medium expressive, but simply the result of progressive loss of functions. To reflect on the reality together with their readers / commentators, however, a blog is still the best tool.
