Social Media Killed the Blog Star?

To get straight to the point, I believe email and blogs are not dead, and I’m tired of the countless articles that say they are.

Oh sure, it’s easy to jump on the email/blogging-is-dead bandwagon, but declaring these modes of communication as dead doesn’t accomplish much. Those who are ready to pronounce the death of email and blogging often justify their arguments in one of two ways: (1) with anecdotal speculation, or with (2) a bogus game of semantics.

Both of these arguments aren’t particularly helpful, and here’s why: