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Blog is usefull for both consumers and businesses. A person can create their blog to express their point of view, more or less, they might have some ads on their blog, but that also means they have good stuff, goods articles and good opinions to attract people. Business owners create blogs to promote their businesses, products, or services, and consumers can go on blog to provides their preview about the products or services. I use to go on blog to see previews of customers about the products before I buy it. I am in Human Resource Outsourcing services, sometimes I go on blogs to post questions or answer Human Resource related questions. This is a good and easy way to promote my business as well.

When done right you not only enhance your branding, you build a deeper relationship with your viewers or subscribers. Adding viral tools to your blog are now an essential; unless you don't want your information to the masses. Seriously, no sarcasm intended. More experts have been "created" by blogging than e-books! Actually some e-books are just blogs with chapters. I would encourage any to take another look into FB. Although they may not have a quote on quote blog platform, by starting a group you can achieve the same objective.

I love blogging.

Creating a Blog and sharing your ideas to whole world is really great. I love posting on blog as it creates a platform to express your feelings.

I really loves blogging as it creates a platform to express yourself.

I don't think it would be a good thing if we would stop blogging.
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I don’t make my money from blogging. While I do throw some ads on it, I do it for the love of just writing. I love to write about travel, business, art, writing, music, and what ever else falls out of my ears.
As for when to quit, you ignore all the rules and ask yourself, “What is my goal for this blog?” If you are reaching your goal in the time frame you set or have already reached you goal then stay with it. If you dread writing in your blog and looking back know you will never reach your goals then you should re-evaluate what you are doing.
It comes down to if you are happy or not. Success isn’t measured in money.

i love blogs i dont think will ever stop some good points made however

Paul Boutin of Wired is clueless!

Not only is this guy clueless, but he is comparing apples to oranges. Twitter or Flickr will never replace blogging - these are such different types of medias. While I do agree that there are many bogus blogs out there, you can't generalize all blogs as being bad. I think he is the one who is stuck in 2004.

It's mind-boggling how these huge magazine publications allow these out-of-tune authors to represent their brand.

With 175 million blogs out there it is getting more difficult to find relevant content. That's 175 million people screaming for attention "please read my blog".

The problem is inadequate filtering...or people just not knowing how to filter. Google blog search is a mess. Too many non-blog related results are being returned. and you can filter by date if you know how to use the advanced features of google blog search.

But so many blog posts are location specific and should be mapped.

The people at 4grabs have come up with a new way for people who have location specific blogs to geo-tag their posts and provide searchers the ability to search for blogs by proximity. You can create a blog in 4grabs or make a post that links to a blog you already have.

Results returned by location float location specific content to the top.
Results returned by date fixes the problem that "bad blogs just sit there forever".

It may become a new way to blog.

Too bad that search engines have not found a better way to eliminate old and meaningless blog search results. The main problem I see is that blogging is not dead, you just have to wade through old, out dated and bogus blogs before you can find meaningful posts. The volume of crappy blogs out there is making good blogs less meaningful.

Blogs are not dead- they are just evolving like everything does on the Internet.

Look at a ecommerce websites two years ago and check out what people are doing with that selling platform now. It's very different.

The good blogs will survive and get better. And bad blogs will disappear as the authors will realise nobody reads them. But what the Internet could definitely do without  is spam blogs (splogs)!

Blogging is a great way to dig deeper and learn more because many people want more information than some want to read on a web page.
With our pet doors there is a tremendous amount of information about
what makes them technically better- to list all that on a web page where the doors sell would bore some potential buyers. For many purchases
I go to blogs to see what is said such as a mattress because I will purchase on-line. 

Blogs are not about to die anytime soon, there may be fewer blogs out there in the near future simply because the cream will continue to rise to the top and only the realy Quality ones will survive, as people will have less time to write on a blog every-day, or see the value in it unless they are one of the top dogs.

Tony
http://www.bestradiocommercials.com

I've been a power user long before any of this became occupational - social media particularly. My blogs have been well-trafficked, and my earnings have been dismal, but only by choice. :)

I came and wrote a lengthy reply which I decided needs to be a blog post which I've linked to below. Instead, I realized I need to offer something a little shorter here.

Blogging is not dead.

PR is not dead - it just had surgery and is sporting a new look.

Local Search is a serious influencer and adds a healthy dose of balance for the Mom & Pop shops, as well as brand new sites that come online.

Social Media is alive and well, leading the charge to a new evolution of how we search, surf, interact, and engage each other online.

I say we just keep taking part in the process, stop fear-mongering, and stay focused on what we have always found to be true: Keep observing traffic patterns, social engagement sites, and always keep an ear to Google's latest. They are on the curve, and they listen to people.

Special Note: Paul Boutin talked as Blogging being dead from the perspective of current search return results. He made the claim of all the top ranked sites being articially driven there, drowning out the voices that really matter, and likely some better authoritative sites on various subjects too.

My comment to Paul would be:

"Paul, this is why Google is shifting the landscape. Google likes blogs, likes Mom & Pop shops, and loves good content. Google wants that to work, and is adjusting the search landscape to accommodate a healthier return on search results by taking more information into the mix. Your suggestions around social media uses are a small part of that.

Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.