All of us (un)fortunate enough to grow up in the 1980s, remember a classic pop song that explained how TV clips killed radio music, or almost.

Now, something similar is continuosly always happening on the interweb.

The last one is that facebook killed the blogging star!

killed the star

As it was anticipated by Gartner 10 predictions for 2007
it seemed that “3. Blogging and community contributors will peak in the first half of 2007.” While I have no figures on number of interesting blogs being published, I do know that one of the fundamental needs that blogs served for (broadcasting easily what are you doing) is being fulfilled more effectively by facebook.

One of the limitations of any blog, this one for that matter, is the control of who reads what. Unless I convince all of my friends & family to sign up to a access controlled blog (highly unlikely), anything I post here can be read by any person.

If you have ever posted in a blog, you know that will inhibit you from posting things that you would normally want to share with your friends, or start writing in code:

The other day, I went to J partay, he was with Z, and both ended up at 6 am shouking to the sras, in our usual rendezvous place, right before Mr X showed up, in his usual, you know what I mean, right?

No, I don’t understand you. That was 100% gibberish! Well, now facebook allows you to do this, while you get all of your friends to sign up not just for you, but for others as well, you get control of who reads what, etc…

And people write more on facebook than on blogs, and more comments as well!

Blogs will keep open for business, as an open window to the world for wanna be writers (or MBAs, for that matter), or for other people looking to share their views with the world, the other fundamental need that blogs address, but I don’t see how they will ever get back to their previous glory…

PS: I know you want it,…