Comments on: Blogging—Past, Present, Future

By: Flags Bay » Blog Archive » The Internet and Social Media

Flags Bay » Blog Archive » The Internet and Social Media — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:11:36 +0000

[...] this series, I have shared my thoughts on the future of blogging, eCommerce, and flags. Now I want to write about Social media. For openers, I am not an expert on [...]

By: Flags Bay » Blog Archive » The Future of Flags

Flags Bay » Blog Archive » The Future of Flags — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:47:34 +0000

[...] the second was about eCommerce, and today I want to write about flags. Because Flags Bay is a blogging, eCommerce website selling flags, I wonder what the future holds for flags. Every week I scan [...]

By: Larry Hendrick

Larry Hendrick — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:57:34 +0000

Well Dave, I’m tackling eCommerce today, Flags Monday, and Social Media after that. I have a Facebook account and … well more on that next week.

I didn’t include cell phones in particular, but they have come up several times already, but edited out. A news story on cnet today may warrant a separate story on cell phones, eCommerce, and blogging. There is a lot of interesting stuff on the horizon.

By: Flags Bay » Blog Archive » eCommerce—Past, Present, Future

Flags Bay » Blog Archive » eCommerce—Past, Present, Future — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:32:54 +0000

[...] with blogging (yesterday’s topic), eCommerce is in its infancy. Online retailers are still determining the [...]

By: Dave J.

Dave J. — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:32:39 +0000

Larry, interesting question, as obvious as it is. Are we already old-timers as bloggers and podcasters?

I agree written communication has a certain strength in its ease, yet definitive methodology. Audio and video are a different case entirely, yet when effective, easily surpass written communication.

So what types of written communication are there on the web?

Static sites
Forums
Email
Blogs
Twitter
Facebook/MySpace
Instant messaging/chat

Right now all the excitement is around Facebook. Don’t know if I’ve ever been there. It all sound so ‘chatty’ that not much of substance results. Old fashioned forums and blogs are (usually) topic-specific, and I think hold a certain strength over ’social’ sites.

For me the difference is all those people walking around with cell-phones telling each other where they are and what they are doing. Force them to write it down and it wouldn’t be much.

After all that rambling, the point is that writing is where it is at. The question remains what you want to say and it what format.