The Death of Macro- Blogging?

Macro vs Micro

Blogging brought out a flow of thought, each post beautifully crafted in its flow, be it a single or multiple paragraphs. A lot of thought went into each post, illustrated with appropriate quotes, pictures, references.  Since that was the only avenue to express, many newbie bloggers chose the “hard thought” route. Me-self was one such blogger.

But with the rise of the micro-blogging phenomena, I’ve realized that I’m more a witness to a stream of single-line status updates/ link-share’s with a note on how much that article was “Beautiful!”, “Amazing”, “Crazy stuff”. My reaction to these was a simple click of the button with similar adjectives. So I find myself reacting (pushing the Share/re-tweet/Like-ing), than thinking about the post, researching and writing more about it. Is it the fear that I would lose out on the NEXT big twitter trend? That I need to put in a wisecrack, a précis comment for phenomenon that would trigger a reaction and not a thought? Many of my erstwhile blogger friends, now hooked onto twitter, do not post as often as they did earlier. An occasional post on pieces that have been written for newspapers, a few comments on the links discovered.

This is a phenomenon restricted, as I said, perhaps only to the newest entrants to the Blogsphere. Who started writing too close to the twitter- era. The Old timers would still remain writers I guess. I believe Super-Bloggers (like a Vir Sanghvi / Seth Godin) do not allow the information overload to overwhelm them. They would perhaps switch off their smartphones, sip a cup of coffee, muse and start typing away.

I wonder how the scene would be in a few more years.

Add on: An article from Mashable posted today on being “un-plugged” Matrix fashion http://mashable.com/2012/01/03/block-internet-distractions-apps/

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