BLOGS: PAST THEIR PRIME?
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WOO (CGY, AB)

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........LONG AGO, A PHENOMENON KNOWN AS BLOGGING SWEPT across the minds of a handful of Calgarians, many of whom attended Bowness High School. Blogging seemed to turn into an outlet for their blooming young minds.
........As many may not believe, blogging isn't a recent discovery. Originally the term 'blog' was a short term used for 'weblog' where people would 'log' about websites that they had encountered and found interesting or enlightening. Nowadays many people young and old have used a form of blogging whether through services such as LiveJournal, Blogdrive, MSN MySpace, and the ever booming popularity of Blogger (owned by Google). These people however have changed the defintion of blogging into a way of expressing one's thoughts and feelings.
........At one time, the blogging phenomenon had been at a booming prime. Blogs left and right were being created, posts were endlessly being created through the torrent of emotions and feelings that people direly had to express. Blog traffic had been ever so high. Just as the passion that those that created blogs had in them to create pieces of writing, viewers had the same passion to read. Some out of boredom, some out of wonder, and some out of communication. Every viewer has had a reason to look at someone's blog.
........Blogs have been used to keep in touch in a ways with others. In these fast and hectic times of the world we live in today, people find it hard to spare the time doing everything that they wish they could do. A quick message left on one's blog seemed good enough at times for the viewers to catch up on what they missed. A quick comment left thereafter - a quick, yet not so instant message.
........In this present day and age though, the world of blogging seems to have taken a turn. Of course, not all blogs everywhere have. In their own little groups of connected bloggers, each experience a boom and a bust. This such group of bloggers seems to be in a bust.
........No longer are the blogs flourishing with new posts every few days and sometimes even hours. No longer are the visitors flocking to read what's on someone's mind or what's been happening in their life. No longer do the electronic words bounce off the screen with flair or style. The words have no exuberance, no passion, no life.
........The heart of our blogs are dying. Give meaning to the words. Give them a reason to be read. Give them life.

Your blogs are dying. Save them; give them your heart.

[Eric Woo is the author and editor of The Life of Woo³; an online blog based out of Calgary, Alberta and Waterloo, Ontario. He can be reached by clicking on the comment link below.]