No, it ain't. Not yet. But the obsession with blogging as a fad may (mercifully) be fading. Anyway, read this Wall Street Journal column, Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite, by Jason Fry for a cogent rant on the topic. Hurry; link will go behind a paid subscription firewall.

From the article:

"Within a couple of years blogging will be a term thrown around loosely -- and sometimes inaccurately -- to

No, it ain't. Not yet. But the obsession with blogging as a fad may (mercifully) be fading. Anyway, read this Wall Street Journal column, Blog Epitaphs? Get Me Rewrite, by Jason Fry for a cogent rant on the topic. Hurry; link will go behind a paid subscription firewall.

From the article:

"Within a couple of years blogging will be a term thrown around loosely -- and sometimes inaccurately -- to describe a style and rhythm of writing, as well as the tools to publish that writing."

For what it's worth, I say something very similar in The Corporate Blogging Book.

Another article pondering the "blogging is dead" meme is here in the Washington Post (Feb. 26, 2006).

I've just come out of a four-hour Podcasting 101 workshop, presented by the incomparable Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson of For Immediate Release fame. More later...  But wanted to register a thank you for a wonderfully demystifying session. Bravo!

P.S. Our class of 10 participants created a podcast at the end of the workshop. I'll post the link as soon as I get it!  Download the MP3 file here

I've just come out of a four-hour Podcasting 101 workshop, presented by the incomparable Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson of For Immediate Release fame. More later...  But wanted to register a thank you for a wonderfully demystifying session. Bravo!

P.S. Our class of 10 participants created a podcast at the end of the workshop. I'll post the link as soon as I get it!  Download the MP3 file here (12 minutes). Or subscribe to Neville and Shel's Speakers & Speeches RSS feed.

Back atcha, as they say! I had breakfast this morning in sunny Palo Alto with Elizabeth Albrycht. She's the co-founder, with Jen McClure, of the NewComm Forum (where I'm speaking this week) and also one of the founders of the Society for New Communications Research.

Elizabeth is a marvelous thinker and writer (and consultant) on the topic of social media tools & technologies and what they mean

Back atcha, as they say! I had breakfast this morning in sunny Palo Alto with Elizabeth Albrycht. She's the co-founder, with Jen McClure, of the NewComm Forum (where I'm speaking this week) and also one of the founders of the Society for New Communications Research.

Elizabeth is a marvelous thinker and writer (and consultant) on the topic of social media tools & technologies and what they mean for organizational communications. And it was a thrill to meet and chat with her in person.

In fact, I recorded my first official podcast with her. It will be #1 in a series of companion podcasts to The Corporate Blogging Book. Stay tuned!