Beyond Blogs: The Conversation Has Moved Into The Flow

(((Well, I'd much rather read Stowe Boyd's blog than read Stowe Boyd's
Twitter stream... If blogging is like being beaten to death with croutons, twittering is like being eaten away by a sandstorm.)))

(((But I blog this because, well, I keep telling people blogs won't last forever. Blogs are a transitional medium built on a highly unstable platform. They won't suddenly vanish by legislative fiat, but they're gonna fade into the background like bulletin-board-systems, ARCHIE
and USENET.)))

(((I kinda hope blogs don't turn into "lifestreams" – jeez – but really, is "lifestreams" any geekier-sounding or more basically unlikely than the hideous neologism "blog"? I could live with "lifestream" – because I'm dead sure I wouldn't have to live with "lifestream"
very long.)))

(((I'll physically outlive "lifestream.")))

Link: /Message: Beyond Blogs: The Conversation Has Moved Into The Flow.

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"But today's blog technologies were not designed with flow in mind: they are based on Web 1.0 principles, (((that's surely the kiss of death – except for being based on Web 2.0 principles, which are even frailer))) and although they have helped to engender a revolution in sociality and flow, they don't support it very well.

"This opens up an important new are for competition in the marketplace, perhaps, but more importantly, a new way to think about the role of social media. (Note: In the Workstreamr application, which is based on social media at a fundamental level, we have also architected flow into the solution at an equally fundamental level.)

(((On the plus side, I kind of enjoy having survived into a world where
"flows" can be "fundamentally architected.")))

"The way I am getting tugged to blog posts is increasingly as a mention within a conversational bite in Twitter or Friendfeed. I then click out of the flow to see the larger post, and offer my view in the flow – not on the blog – and then I return to the flow, where I will be spending most of my time.

"This makes sense: I want to talk about the blog post with the person who brought it to my attention, more so that with some group of strangers at the blog, or even the author, who I may not know at all.

"I also don't think we can expect the fragmentation of the social experience to slow down: it will get a lot worse before it gets better...." (((After the Revolution, things will be different – not "better," just different.)))