This is the one that will be the last post ever.

Posted February 10th, 2010 by Mike Lawson

Blogging is dead.

Well, “traditional” blogging anyway.  Microblogging has totally stolen everything valuable from traditional blogs (like this one) and made it easier to connect with other people, share parts of your life, and get others to respond.

I’m playing around with Google Buzz right now.  And so far I’m kind of impressed with how integrated it is with my already established web of Internet contacts.  It knows that I want to see the newest photos posted by that friend-of-a-friend, and it knows that I want to know what Daniel’s up to.

The shitty part about microblogging – Twitter, Facebook to a degree and now Google Buzz – is that it kills a lot of the motivation I’ve ever had to blog.  Why do I need to log into WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com and complain about a messy co-worker [posted here on December 2007] when I could just pound out my frustrations in 140 characters or less?

And on a good day, this blog has about 40 visitors.  40.  Lame.

On Twitter I’ve got 353 followers.  And let’s assume that only one quarter of those 350 Twitter followers are actually regularly checking their feed, that’s still more blog visitors that I see daily.

Really, I need to think about what my purpose here is.  If I just want to socialize, share links and post pictures of Olive and Beezus then maybe I should be using social networks instead of this blog.

What do you think?