Comments on: The Broken Web http://alteregozi.com/2009/08/18/the-broken-web/ Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:25:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ofer Egozi http://alteregozi.com/2009/08/18/the-broken-web/#comment-175 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:33:11 +0000 http://alteregozi.com/?p=548#comment-175 Of course that’s not what I am suggesting. So I’ll clarify: I’m referring to those moving from an independent blog to centralized platforms such as twitter.

Scoble’s example is classic – the guy invested a lot into FriendFeed, moved his center of activity there and many of his readers followed and held discussions over his thoughts (even when published in his blog) on FriendFeed. Now FF is suddenly not Scoble’s baby anymore, and may even shut down (for pure FB business reasons) some time in the future, thus eliminating those contributions.

The outcome of what I say is not that blogging is better than twittering. The fact that twitter exists only as a single instance of this type of platform (unlike blogging) is the distortion here, and it will change over time.

Update: Dave explains that concern better in a follow up post

]]> By: Pasha http://alteregozi.com/2009/08/18/the-broken-web/#comment-174 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:05:56 +0000 http://alteregozi.com/?p=548#comment-174 In the second point you’re ignoring the fact that the same service that may break-down is also what enables you to create the contribution in the first place. You’re presenting it as if every person who contributes on twitter also has a blog. No. Most of the people who contribute on twitter wouldn’t have contributed anything otherwise. The new platforms are lowering the barrier and are *creating* content where no content would have existed.
Another example: would you suggest to me to move all my flickr images to my own image server? And setup a viewing web site on top of it? With comments and favorites and sets?
I can promise you that then, instead of the 445 photos I currently have up there I would have exactly zero.

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