The blog is dead, long live the blog

Just like there's a neverending debate wether punk is dead or not 1 , we can't seem to agree wether the blog as an impactful medium is over. So it amused me to read two opposing declarations of influential bloggers that I follow. Venkatesh Rao wrote this last autumn when he announced the retirement of his blog Ribbonfarm: I do think that the end really is here for the blogosphere though. This time…