Via Om Malik: Future of Media – a quick reality check – On my Om:
Let’s take music journalism as an example. You are unlikely to stumble upon any new music through a traditional music magazine or even on many traditional music blogs. Instead, people are finding new musical acts on TikTok. “Mainstream music journalism is largely uninterested in promoting discovery, focusing instead on blanket coverage of superstars and seemingly endless traffic-grabbing lists — which may buoy an existing reader base, but often fails to capture newer, younger music fans,” reported (ironically) Rolling Stone. “Enter the upstart music blogs of TikTok.”
I wrote this piece a year ago but continue to think about it.
Second and the more exciting reason this blog has died lately is because I have been writing more professionally. Yes, there is a huge time sink of emails & documents for my 4 jobs but I’m talking about professionally writing for magazines and publications. I will soon have my 3rd printed work in a motorcycle magazine and I write monthly columns for 2 motorcycle club newsletters. I publish long pieces on motorcycles forums and of course I am still consistently publishing to YouTube where I have around 200K views each month on my videos which nets me about $350.
I still publish to my blog about once a month when I feel something that needs to be said but if you look at my About.me page, you’ll see links to places all over the web where I write publicly. My Newsletter, Podcast, Youtube channel and this blog receive about 10 minutes of content every day and then there’s the writing I do professionally for work where I average today about 6,000 words each day.
Blogging for me has become dispersed but I’m still a blogger and always will be.