There seems to be a problem afoot with the way people are blogging, now. No longer is it enough just to type out our thoughts. Instead, we are seeing quite the migration to “podcasts” and video blogging. Two things that should have probably stayed in the realm of science fiction.

When people post a podcast or video blog, there is no opportunity to read the content of the audio or video file. Instead, I’m expected to listen to somebody who has recorded their “not-for-radio” voice with a really poor quality microphone that either has a terrible echo, or a low whistle that is capable of getting every dog in a three block radius to start barking. On top of this, rather than write an entry with just a few hundred words, people are starting to post twenty and thirty minute media files that essentially say the same thing, but with thousands of unnecessary words! Could this be the end of blogging?