Who Wants Yesterday’s Blog?

Blog is a tiny planet in the media galaxy. I’m not sure that it has enough oxygen to support human life. The graph above is more than ten years old and shows posts per day. At the bottom of this post you can see the numbers using the Internet per minute  and even this is a few years old but there are not enough visitors to planet Blog for it to be on the dashboard. 

My expert (Jeremy Ruston) on these matters tells me that blogging is very yesterday and posting videos on YouTube is more popular. Jeremy has always been at the cutting edge. At the end of this post he is interviewed about computers when he was seventeen and nobody, including the interviewer, knew what a computer was for. He says in the interview that he failed his A Levels but be reassured, he has had a successful career. It’s all in his genes: his mother teaches IT skills.

I read friends’ travel blogs but I never knew what stuff was out there until I started writing myself. Some bloggers, I’m thinking of you diamond geezer, have been at it since 2002. This sort of blog and others replace newspaper columnists. Websites like the BBC replace the news pages of the print press. Is it any wonder that the Independent is going on-line? I still prefer to read a newspaper but not every day. It’s not a money thing, it’s a time and convenience thing.

My shift is towards magazines (The Spectator) and The Weekend FT which I find essential catch-up reading on political, financial and cultural matters. The way we find out what’s happening has and still is massively changing. This week the signal for BBC Radio 4 was interrupted and I, neurotically, thought that maybe there had been a military coup or a revolution. It was a technical problem, the announcer explained but we increasingly rely on receiving information electronically and maintaining that is as important as the delivery of water and electricity.