Will Blogging Kill Discussion Boards like the BaptistBoard?

Hardsheller, thanks for the comments and help. If the interaction becomes easier and users multiply, perhaps it will rival something like this discussion board.

I think one difference is that on the blogs (except for extremely well-known bloggers) the readership is more limited and so the variety of discussion and debate is also limited. Probably in some respects it's just what appeals to people. Maybe it's like choosing to go to Wal-Mart for most everything, or going to needs-specific stores for a specific item or two. BB has everything from politics to computers to sports to theology. Seems most blogs will usually be more limited. I feel like the BB kind of format will always have a following, but the number of users might drop off.

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One other comment after spending about a week and a half blogging and reading blogs. I find much of the same kind of interest there as here. If one can post a controversial topic that allows for a lot of opinion it will be a hot blog. If one wants to discuss scripture, it will kind of drag.

A few months back, there was a thread about Rosa Parks sitting on a bus seat that quickly ran to ten pages. When we started another one to discuss the implications and application of Romans 13, we struggled to get on to the second page. Blogs seem to share this in common with discussion boards, and may tend to be even more that way.

 

Thanks, Hardsheller.

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Ed, come over and visit me. You can blog paragraphs if you like! (See link a few posts above).

I think one thing could be the content of the blog. Some blogs appear to be written as more of an online diary or something -- one's personal musings just in case someone out there" is interested -- anyway, something that wouldn't incite much response. Another thing, as I mentioned above, is that the controversial topics that "invite" our opinions and excite our emotions are more likely to be "hot", even on the Baptist Board.

I also think that part of the problem is the fact that blogging is so new. When I was new to discussion boards, adding a post was somewhat daunting. Now it's second nature. Plus, since a lot of the bloggers are new, like me, often the blog sites are not as user friendly as they could be. When I first opened mine, the default setting was that a person had to have a blog account to add a response. Once I figured that out, I changed it to allow anyone to make a comment. On the blog I have, there seems to be no longer of how long a response a person can write if they're of a mind to!

Jim, I think those are some fairly accurate observations.

 

i've got a couple of blogs of my own, and i tend to post more on message boards still.
So i don't think blogs are taking away from message boards.

 

I have not blogged yet. I tend to save my material for Sunday

 

Well, there is so much similarity between blogs and forums. Some forums have blogs as part of the forum. In some ways, in a forum, everyone gets their own blog!

At http://www.gracecentered.com/cgi-bin/forum/ikonboard.cgi people post blogs/articles and others respond. I'm not sure how that is much different to a blog, except that it's not the same person over and over again.

I kind of think that blogs are beginning to saturate the net a little bit. Some will rise to the top and people will continue to read their articles, but, eventually, the new is going to wear off the candy and people are going to say, "Why am I reading this guy? I've never heard of him."

Maybe.

 

Message and Chat boards are not going away. I have a website ministry of my own. Written material and Lord willing sound coming soon. I personally think It's great, however message boards exist for those who desire dialogue. There will always be those of us who, want to ask a question or make a comment. You just can't do that with a blog or website.

 

Remember a few years ago when the question was if email would replace snail mail?

 

Blogs are the natural evolution of homepages. I remember when homepages were first starting up, everyone was making one and sending it to all their friends. But noone would actually update their personal homepages or visit someone else's homepage unless there was conversation going on. Hence the blog which is all about conversation with a "preacher".

Message boards are a very different dynamic of conversation where the focus is not the "preacher" but the topic.

I find it amazing that newsgroups are still kicking around with the popularity of message boards. I personally cannot stand the format of newsgroups where I need to filter through every single post to find topics of interest to me.

I don't think message boards will ever be replaced by blogs. They are simply two different beasts.

 

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I've never read a single sentance from any blog anywhere, and I wouldnt know an "Ipod" if it walked in the room right now...much less a "podcast", whatever that is.

Mike

 

Many of us do both