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SXSW Panel: Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple
Panel: Why Keep Blogging? Real Answers for Smart Tweeple (Twitter hashtag: #whykeepblogging)
Date/time: 9:30 a.m. Saturday
Panelists: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez (F+W Media Inc), Lizzie Skurnick (Old Hag/Jezebel/Politics Daily), Scott Rosenberg (Wordyard), Josh Fruhlinger (The Comics Curmudgeon), Emily Gordon (Emdashes).
The gist: Few bloggers are making money, at least on their own. But even though Twitter and Facebook have taken over, blogging still exists as a livelihood, especially for people who are blogging for companies or print publications that want to know what people out there are really thinking. But keeping up your passion for blogging can be an ongoing battle, and perhaps comes out of an unnecessary sense of obligation.
Quotes:“Blogging started an outlet for people’s passions.” — Rosenberg. “Initial enthusiasm, devition, love and eventually exhaustion over time. It’s natural.” — Rosenberg. “Half the traffic to my blog comes from Twitter.” — Gonzalez. “I really come from the day when blogging was for losers.” — Skurnick. “I love it, but it has no past.” — Rosenberg on Twitter.
Takeaways: Blogging is hard and it’s easy to burn out and repeat yourself, but sometimes you’ve gotta feed the machine, especially if you’re blogging for a business. Twitter may not kill blogging; in fact, it may help refine it and strengthen what blogging is because Twitter can’t do certain things that blogs can.
— Omar L. Gallaga
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