reBlog from searchengineguide.com: Search Engine Guide Blog

I found this fascinating quote today:

So, yes, Twitter and Facebook status updates have made blogging less essential than it was just a few years ago. You no longer see blog posts that riff off someone else’s post, because people just link to that post on Twitter. For people for whom blogging was too long a form to stick with, Facebook status updates are more manageable.searchengineguide.com, Search Engine Guide Blog, Sep 2009

You should read the whole article.