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A fond farewell to Onedegree.ca

by Phil Barrett

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Today onedegree.ca has declared that they will no longer be publishing on their website. There are of course a variety of reasons, and I encourage you to go to their site to get the full 411.

I wanted to thank Kate Trgovac and her team for their contributions to the Canadian digital ecosystem over the last few years and for giving me an opportunity to add my voice on occasion to their site.  Although the site will be missed, I’m looking forward to seeing where their energy will be focused on next.

Is this another sign that blogs are dead or dying?

It seems that twitter, facebook and linkedin are replacing the need to even have a blog these days – except of course for those who still want to aggregate their voice as an extension of their personal or company brand.

With that said, should we take Steve Rubel’s lead and change the format of the blog to a lifestream channel instead? This is something I’ll be considering over the coming months as this blog naturally evolves from it’s current platform.

  • Don't you think that with fb/twitter/linkedin that there's enough of the web heading towards the lifestream model? Keeping a blog, as you suggest, to aggregate your voice in a traditional blog format will soon become a differentiator for your message. I mean, it's not like there's anything wrong with the blogging format, it's just not the latest fad anymore and therefore, not perceived to be as cool as it once was.
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