Blogazines are going to be huge for a lot of reasons. Allow me to elaborate*.
In the short term, it’s because of Smashing Magazine’s article called The Death of the Boring Blog Post in November 2009.
Shortly after Mashable profiled blogazines as one of 10 News Media Content Trends To Watch in 2010.
Both websites are leaders in online journalism and social media and being mentioned by one is enough hype in itself to start a trend. Five days after Mashable’s article, the number of searches for the word “blogazine” increased 1800%.
The long term success of blogazines will be because they are awesome and more interesting to read! The turning point will come when the content on blogazines begin to compete with blogs. Content still reigns king on the internet.
I love this stuff and am super bored of blogs! Welcome blogazines!
I will list the most important articles relating to blogazines on this page. But also some really unimportant ones.
Here’s a Warren Buffet quote:
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
On the web…
Idea 004: the rise of the blogazine by Adam Westbrook. He lives in London and says about himself..
I am a freelance multimedia journalist, blogger & lecturer with several years experience in television, radio and online.
Here’s an Q&A with Dustin Curtis from Random Sarah.
The New Magazine: Blogazine or Magazog? – by Martha Nichols was worth reading although she get’s into all sorts of craziness about iPhones somewhere in the middle. But who am I to judge on getting off topic. Below is how she starts..
A few days ago, I thought I was particularly clever, dreaming up a new term for the hybrid blog-magazine that’s now appearing all over the Web: magazog.
From WebDesignerWall.com comes Unique Blog Posts and WordPress Tips which profiles many of the blogazines on this site.
Footnotes:
*If I elabrote on the Internet is it called e-elaborating?