Heh, Rich, how’s the fad going?

by on April 9, 2006

Rich Levin will forever be famous as the guy who told me, back when I started blogging five years ago, that blogging is a fad and that I wouldn't be doing it very long.

To his credit, though, he had me on his radio show the other day and has put the recording up. We talk about a lot of stuff from Microsoft to our new book.

He's interviewed hundreds of other people (he's been doing a radio show for as long as I've known him and I've known him a lot longer than I've been blogging — his show is on many stations on the East Coast).

You've gotta listen to the first few minutes of the recording. Rich's daughter introduces us. She's so cute!

Oh, and Rich has a blog now too. Heheh.

  • Heh, I feel you.

    There are some people close to me that told me blogging was a fad. Downright annoyed me at the time, as they didn't believe in me --and I thought/wish they should or would have.

    I won't rub it in however, let's just let the actions speak for themselves. I'm certainly no saint, I know I've not always supported everyone around me in everything they've done.

    Rick sounds like a standup guy.
  • Sharing personal experience is not a fad. Communications with your customers is not a fad. Blogging is just a new form. Second Life and other virtual worlds will be the next level of creative evolution.
  • Robert

    I just listened to the start of the podcast, that was the absolute best introduction I've ever heard for you.

    "If you don't read it, you'll be clueless about blogging --you better buy it!"

    made my day.
  • John
    I remember briefly chatting with the Director of Y! Photos, and he thought blogging was a fad. He passed up Flickr also and the Y! Search guys were smart enough to buy Flickr.
  • to blog is indeed a fad now, at China. more than ten million people are begining to blog, including those IT professionals, enterpreneurs, white collars, students, :) including me, started my blog last year.
  • Christopher Coulter
    Oh it's already bubbled out, most blogs don't last more than 2 weeks, yet live on forever (seemingly mainly on MSN Spaces). MySpace is still thriving (well for now), but I doubt the A-Listers would claim that a blog. The mere fact that a choice few are able to make a living and MLM scam others by writing 'how to books' (yet cave in front of audiences and Amazon VIPs), doesn't make it not a fad. Some good to be had, within the context, but the 'medium is the messagers' are always forever blowing bubbles. Pretty bubbles in the air, they fly so high, nearly reach the sky, then like everything Web 2.0, they fade and die.

    PS - With apologies to West Ham United FC.
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