A view on blogging in response to Davepress
A provocative blog that has done the trick; attracted comments (conversation) and led to some soul searching amongst those whose blogging efforts have waned for understandable reasons. As with many blogs related to the public sector I leave many of these posts more wiser and welcome the insights and tips. So my forays into blog posts are really to extend my knowledge.
I am a civil servant who was posted to a web department in August 08 so reading about the work of other Whitehall Webbies has been educational and equal in weight to some of the courses I could attend.
That said I do not see blogging as anything like as important as this blogpost suggests. Blogging was at the height of it’s self created bubble two to three years ago when stories were abound of folk who could make a living from blogging. True blogging made reputations and still will but blogging itself faces relative decline or is in need of re-invention.
For myself I am a fan of Posterous and Tumblr and like the relaxed, easy to use and as I write an e-mail I can ask myself the question “Will I email this to post@posterous and create it as a piece of web content with perhaps a picture or video and pass it around.
In work I post opinions to some of the Posterous topic groups set up for Twitter and Blogs these are less about blogging but sharing knowledge. I would not consider myslef a blogger and ok people don;nt speak like this but I rarely meet people who say “Hi I’m a blogger” People have a digital personality that is broader than blogging; they tweet, maybe post to Facbook, Posterous or Tumblr. Or the they may add comments or join conversations.
Laugh if you wish but though not convinced wholly I am more confident that Google Wave will be a place for some great conversations towards the end of 2010. I look forward to BarCamp were the issue and relevance of blogging can be debated. I am open to a change of opinion. The text above has already been posted on Dave Briggs excellent blog post ‘The state of the UK Gov Blogosphere’
