Weblogs goes down and especially weblogs.asp.net

it is a overall trend that the useage of weblogs goes down. The authors are posting less then a year before. Just look at the monthly statistics of some weblogs. In October 2003 was mostly the highest level.

But the redesign of this .Text based weblog was a realy bad thing for the sucess.

1) the ranking list of the Bloggers is away. So their is no motivation to have more blog entrys than somebody else

2) the amount of entrys on the start page is reduced. I used bevor this page to see what news have this day. I cant do this because i must look ever 2 hours to get the whole day.

3) The goals of Scott and Rob seems have been changed. Who is responsable to bring this Blog site forward?

 

Published Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:57 AM by preishuber

Comments

# re: Weblogs goes down and especially weblogs.asp.net

Thursday, October 21, 2004 5:13 AM by Jon Galloway
Totally agree. The recent changes were like a cigar at a tea party - seems like the room's clearing out. Maybe it's not and the action's moved to RSS Aggregators, but it sure feels that way.

# re: Weblogs goes down and especially weblogs.asp.net

Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:25 AM by Darren Neimke
Whilst I agree that blogs have become less interesting that a year or so ago, I think that it is only in-part due to the "refurbishment" of weblogs.asp.net.

Many influential bloggers have moved their blogs - and with that, chunks of traffic away from this particular portal.

Also, blogging as an activity that had marvellous FAD status a year ago. Whilst it's still an important medium, it is now more a mainstream venture. This means that, in the mindset of people it now simply competes with other forms of stimulus rather than standing out on its own.

Maybe! :-)

# re: Weblogs goes down and especially weblogs.asp.net

Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:10 AM by Darrell
Ummm, anyone remember why the blogging rate was so high in Oct 2003? Can anyone say "P-D-C"?

# re: Weblogs goes down and especially weblogs.asp.net

Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:45 AM by JDM
"1) the ranking list of the Bloggers is away. So their is no motivation to have more blog entrys than somebody else"

If having more entries than anyone else is your purpose in blogging, you needn't bother. Odds are pretty good that, with bulk as your primary motivation, you won't have many people reading.

# re: Weblogs goes down and especially weblogs.asp.net

Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:10 PM by Jon Galloway
Why are the influential bloggers all moving their blogs, though? Sure, some of it is because they want to customize the site or whatever, but I think many jumped ship when they realized they had no control over thir RSS feed, comments, etc., and lost confidence that their best interests were a priority on the aggregate system.

When this was running well, it was more of a community so fewer people wanted to go off and do their own thing.

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