A handy chart of search activity on “blogs” and “social media”:
via Google Trends
At first glance, Google Trends appear to indicate blogging is on the way out. Ye olde webbe logge is so 2004, after all.
But I don’t think a wholesale abandonment of blogging is underway. Instead, prior to 2008 people used blogging software as a crude social network. Once facebook arrived with a better product for that sort of thing some demographics no longer blogged, leaving the blogosphere to people whose activities were a better match to the tools.
In any case, Facebook’s dominance is now absolute:
A personal blog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
You know about insects and ultimate frisbee, right?
http://membracid.wordpress.com/2011/05/26/insects-totally-caused-ultimate-frisbee/
Ha! I forgot about that. Hilarious!
*snicker*
Try Facebook, ants
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=facebook,+ants&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
Is it over or did myrmecophily never get off the ground?
Have just found you on NBN. Could offer harvester ants? Does NBN bring you more readers? Some you didn’t have before?
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