According to yet another study by the folks at the Pew Internet and American Life Project (do they ever sleep?), blogging has “peaked”, at least when it comes to the “millennial” generation.
However, the researchers note that “while the act formally known as blogging seems to have peaked, internet users are doing blog-like things in other online spaces as they post updates about their lives, musings about the world, jokes, and links on social networking sites and micro-blogging sites”.
So, maybe this is a good time to just dump the term “blog”, which Wired calls an “ugly-duckling word that’s never had a real definition”, and instead work with the larger concept of how people communicate their ideas online through a growing number of multiple channels.
It’s also way past time that we in education began helping kids (and not a few teachers) understand how and why to intelligently craft their online personalities, whatever you call the process.