Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Does Google Buzz mean the end of standalone blogs?

I have been playing around with Google Buzz for just a few hours. The lack of a limit on the length of posts (unlike Twitter), the integrated comment mechanism, and many other features make it perfect for ad hoc blogging. About the only thing that it lacks is permanence, but that is a very important feature.

If I were to post this on Buzz, it would reach just as many (or just as few) people as if I post it on Blogspot. However, if I post it as just on buzz, then it will be swept away in the stream of other posts, and probably never be seen again. On the other hand, by writing it as a blog entry, it will automatically be linked to on Buzz, and should also always be available for reference.

It will be interesting to see whether people comment on this just on Buzz, just on Blogspot, or some combination of both.

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