The blog is dead. Long live the blog.

I have a personal blog as well as this one. And if I get busy and can't post on that, I miss it. It's become a part of the narrative in my life and the lives of my family and friends.

When I blogged at the Globe for 2.5 years, that was also a part of me. Those were the advent years of blogging. And when I left the Globe in January this year, I started posting here. Simultaneously I delved even further into my professional project at WeeWorld.

Now I find I don't circle back to this blog as much. Do I miss it? To be honest, not really. Not because I don't value you reading it...it just has to do with where my lifestream is now.

And that's led me to this observation: I don't think blogging is blogging anymore.

Today journalists are bloggers and bloggers are journalists (unheard of 3 years ago). Today grandmothers and sisters and brothers and friends are blogging. People "blog" their photos on Flickr and their videos on YouTube. Kids blog on virtual worlds. Professionals blog on LinkedIn. Facebook is short form blogging. And the next wave is Twitter.

Blogging has simply become a part of the lifestream we each leave on the planet.

Currently my lifestream flows strongly through WeeWorld, where I'm part of the development of a virtual world and social network, that's so filled with fun self expression, that we get 60,000 new members signing up each month.

There will be times when the stream will flow strongly here on maurawelch.com. But lately it's more like a pond that I occasionally throw a good stone into...and if you feel like it, you might throw a stone in too.