Blogging is dead. Maybe. According to some commentators.
But not really.
Back in 2007, Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion argued that Shiny Object Syndrome and the attention crash mean that people were focusing on social networking tools rather than traditional blogs.
Charles Arthur of the Grauniad has pitched in with a piece based on the decline in [...]

At w00tonomy, we’re fascinated by the endless possibilities of blogging tools.  While we are able to carry out all singing, all dancing Rolls-Royce-and-caviar redesigns, we think they’re not right for all organisations.
In fact many would be better off building their websites on cost-effective open source blogging tools like Wordpress rather than spending tens of thousands of pounds [...]