bijan sabet: The life of a blog post →
Blogging has come a long way since I started first reading blogs and since my first blog post.
They have evolved from a pure publishing one to many model into a two way system where follow/follower, comments, reblogs, and “likes” provide a whole new experience.
But one thing I’ve noticed is…
I’ve thought about this a bit before —
This is most likely because of how/why people come across different types of posts. If you just expand these trends a little further you start to notice places where posts on blogs do have lasting activity. This, for example, was posted February ‘09 and had a comment just a couple days ago. Whereas you could look at a blog post about some concert or a new product that has most likely had much more traffic, yet has the lifespan you mentioned.
So it basically boils down to the way you came across it. If you search for “ipad” (or happen to actively read a blog that posts about it) you are going to find people that are excited about the buzz or just want some information. If (a couple months down the road) you search for “WHY WON’T MY IPAD TURN ON” you will find blogs where some hotshot fixed his device with a toothpick and some know-how and along with horde of people either thanking him or grilling him for more information because it “still doesn’t work”.
It should also be noted that there is a significant difference in the community for the two types of mediums. I know very few people that don’t read blogs and I know about the same amount of people that actively use forums. Blog readers want to read something, smile, curse, laugh, share, and move on. Forum users want a conversation to get the most out of their product.
