Matt’s Cuppa

There is an interesting <a href="http://avc.blogs.com/…nd-bl.html">post</a> today on A VC about the evolution of blogging. I concur with the author when he states that he hates the term ‘Blogging 2.0′, but for lack of a better term I’ll roll with it.

His point is that conversations are occurring in the microblogosphere that may or may not make their way back to the traditional blogosphere, and in turn are not picked up by blog aggregators like Techmeme. It’s an interesting issue. Web applications such as Twitter (when it’s not down) or Pownce are bringing our conversation much closer to real-time. In comparison, traditional blogs are not as responsive to real-time events.

It begs the question of if and how we track these scattered 140 character bits of conversation. Is it worthwhile, or do we wait until the conversation filters back to the blogosphere, and thus to aggregators like Techmeme?

My final thought is that I am convinced that we are moving into the world of citizen-journalism 2.0. Web applications like Twitter, Skype, Brightkite, YouTube, and many others provide the means to mobilize our news collection. As-it-happens microjournalism is here. The question is no longer how to capture an event, but rather how to collect events scattered across applications and communities.