With the constant stream of information that is coning at us on a daily basis, or in the case of the real-time web minute by minute or even second by second, being able to pick out individual is getting to be exceedingly difficult. In the time before micro-blogging using Twitter has taken off and Facebook has become the de facto Internet for millions blogs were consider the hot property.
Everyone it seemed to want to have blog, to grab their niche, and make their millions. In most cases that has proven to be nothing more than a dream unfulfilled. Sure there were some voices that have become one’s that re easily identified and the poster boys/ladies of success in this new medium.
But then I was reading a post by Hugh MacLeod the other day where he said this
Nobody will ever care how many Twitter followers I had or how SEO-optimized my blog was.
This got me thinking about the whole permanence of what we as writers on blogs can expect at the point where we either quit or die. After all at some point hosting fees will go delinquent, domain fees will go unpaid, which means that there will come a point where everything we have poured out for anyone to read will be gone.
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I have, and continue to be a strong believer and advocate for blogs and the conversations that can develop around the posts on them. It is where you can really get to know who your readers are beyond the retweets and the real time pulse of the social web. It is the way that you can show your new readers that you are just more than a poster of 
I guess it must be good to be a big name newspaper tech journalist since that means you can get all the cool toys to play with and still have some sort of tech cred that gets you lotsa love from tech companies. Whereas with bloggers who do pretty much the exact same thing we get the FCC sniffing up our asses and forever demeaned by the Blogging Purity Patrol® when we do the same type of stuff our ‘pro’ brethren do.
There is a danger when we step from blogging just for the hell of it over to trying to make it more of a professional occupation. What started out as a fun way to talk about the things that interest us, and in turn hopefully interest the readers who discover us, can easily turn into a daily grind of cranking out word after word. 
