Kill Your Blog

Honest to Blog: Kill Your Blog

Honest to Blog: Kill Your Blog: "'Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.

Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge.

'Blogging is simply too big, too impersonal, and lacks the intimacy that drew me to it.'

Twitter - which limits each text-only post to 140 characters - is to 2008 what the blogosphere was to 2004."