Blog of the Future

August 30, 2007 By

Matt Mullenweg, founder, Automattic (WordPress and Akismet makers)

Yesterday I had lunch/dinner with Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic. They are the fine folks who bring you WordPress (the blog service I use) and Akismet (the comment spam blocker I use).

That’s him holding his iPhone yesterday.

Anyway, we got talking about the “Blog of the Future” and I thought I’d just give him some ideas on video and get you involved. Did you know you can record/upload your own video to my Kyte channel? Just click “produce on this channel.”

Anyway, here’s my ideas on “blog of the future.” (that link takes you directly to my video, the widget below shows you my entire channel).

What do you think should be in the blog of the future?

Oh, and remember, my Kyte.tv channel is open for YOU to post your own video so tell Matt Mullenweg what YOU want on YOUR blog of the future! (Francine Hardaway did just that yesterday).

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  • http://babblesoft.com/blog Aruni

    How old is Matt? He looks pretty young in this picture. 19? Early 20′s?

    I assume by stating you had “lunch/dinner” with him that you spent quite a bit of time with him.

    Aruni

  • http://babblesoft.com/blog Aruni

    How old is Matt? He looks pretty young in this picture. 19? Early 20′s?

    I assume by stating you had “lunch/dinner” with him that you spent quite a bit of time with him.

    Aruni

  • http://www.nowandnext.com/ Richard Watson

    Hi Robert,

    Just picked up on the blog of the future conversation. Great topic. My quick answer is surely it’s video or at least very image rich text. BTW, I did a timeline of future inventions a while ago and rather missed the future of the blog.

    http://nowandnext.com/PDF/TimeLineweb_ver2.pdf

    However, I’m just about to finish of an extinction timeline for the period 1900-2050 and I have taken the decision to make blogs extinct by about 2018.
    What replaces blogging? I haven’t got an answerr for that quite yet!

    Cheers,

    Richard.

  • http://www.nowandnext.com/ Richard Watson

    Hi Robert,

    Just picked up on the blog of the future conversation. Great topic. My quick answer is surely it’s video or at least very image rich text. BTW, I did a timeline of future inventions a while ago and rather missed the future of the blog.

    http://nowandnext.com/PDF/TimeLineweb_ver2.pdf

    However, I’m just about to finish of an extinction timeline for the period 1900-2050 and I have taken the decision to make blogs extinct by about 2018.
    What replaces blogging? I haven’t got an answerr for that quite yet!

    Cheers,

    Richard.

  • http://www.nowandnext.com Richard Watson

    Hi Robert,

    Just picked up on the blog of the future conversation. Great topic. My quick answer is surely it’s video or at least very image rich text. BTW, I did a timeline of future inventions a while ago and rather missed the future of the blog.

    http://nowandnext.com/PDF/TimeLineweb_ver2.pdf

    However, I’m just about to finish of an extinction timeline for the period 1900-2050 and I have taken the decision to make blogs extinct by about 2018.
    What replaces blogging? I haven’t got an answerr for that quite yet!

    Cheers,

    Richard.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Aruni: Matt was born in 1984. Which really is scary since I graduated from high school in 1983. That makes him 23.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Aruni: Matt was born in 1984. Which really is scary since I graduated from high school in 1983. That makes him 23.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Aruni: Matt was born in 1984. Which really is scary since I graduated from high school in 1983. That makes him 23.

  • http://www.web1979.com/ Mat

    I’m generally not a fan of vlogging, but I think these whiteboard sessions are a nice way to bounce around some ideas.

    I’d like to see them complemented by a blog post that distills the key content though. It can become quite tiresome to sit through an entire video, as it is a definitionally sequential medium.

    The nice thing about consuming written content is that the eye, and the mind, can bounce around as it so pleases.

  • http://www.web1979.com/ Mat

    I’m generally not a fan of vlogging, but I think these whiteboard sessions are a nice way to bounce around some ideas.

    I’d like to see them complemented by a blog post that distills the key content though. It can become quite tiresome to sit through an entire video, as it is a definitionally sequential medium.

    The nice thing about consuming written content is that the eye, and the mind, can bounce around as it so pleases.

  • http://www.web1979.com Mat

    I’m generally not a fan of vlogging, but I think these whiteboard sessions are a nice way to bounce around some ideas.

    I’d like to see them complemented by a blog post that distills the key content though. It can become quite tiresome to sit through an entire video, as it is a definitionally sequential medium.

    The nice thing about consuming written content is that the eye, and the mind, can bounce around as it so pleases.

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  • http://ngszehin.mysinablog.com/ ng sze hin

    I agree with most (except 1 so far?) of you that Video is not the future. I mean, it is great to have photos and voice and videos in an article, and you can see now you could run YouTube directly inside Goolge Reader. But I guess if you put the whole content into a video, I would simply skip your blog, because while I could read 120 posts in 10 minutes in Google Reader, I could only watch half of your video within the same period of time.

  • http://ngszehin.mysinablog.com/ ng sze hin

    I agree with most (except 1 so far?) of you that Video is not the future. I mean, it is great to have photos and voice and videos in an article, and you can see now you could run YouTube directly inside Goolge Reader. But I guess if you put the whole content into a video, I would simply skip your blog, because while I could read 120 posts in 10 minutes in Google Reader, I could only watch half of your video within the same period of time.

  • http://ngszehin.mysinablog.com ng sze hin

    I agree with most (except 1 so far?) of you that Video is not the future. I mean, it is great to have photos and voice and videos in an article, and you can see now you could run YouTube directly inside Goolge Reader. But I guess if you put the whole content into a video, I would simply skip your blog, because while I could read 120 posts in 10 minutes in Google Reader, I could only watch half of your video within the same period of time.

  • http://www.icemark.com/blog/ Chris Wild

    To echo those above… no video… I don’t have time or the inclination to watch video… I want to read and digest things that way!

  • http://www.icemark.com/blog/ Chris Wild

    To echo those above… no video… I don’t have time or the inclination to watch video… I want to read and digest things that way!

  • http://www.icemark.com/blog/ Chris Wild

    To echo those above… no video… I don’t have time or the inclination to watch video… I want to read and digest things that way!

  • http://legalscribbles.com/ Martin

    I think it’s pretty poor that you don’t even link to Mullenweg’s blog.

    Text, to me, is far more appealing than video most of the time. I might read a well-written post on an interesting subject, but I won’t take the time to watch your Kyte channel.

    I can read faster than you can speak (i.e. I want to go at MY pace, not yours.)

  • http://legalscribbles.com Martin

    I think it’s pretty poor that you don’t even link to Mullenweg’s blog.

    Text, to me, is far more appealing than video most of the time. I might read a well-written post on an interesting subject, but I won’t take the time to watch your Kyte channel.

    I can read faster than you can speak (i.e. I want to go at MY pace, not yours.)

  • http://www.yald.com Patrick Grote

    Martin … I think it’s pretty poor you call someone out for not linking to the blog and then you don’t link to the blog. :)

    This is Matt’s blog:

    http://photomatt.net/

  • http://www.yald.com/ Patrick Grote

    Martin … I think it’s pretty poor you call someone out for not linking to the blog and then you don’t link to the blog. :)

    This is Matt’s blog:

    http://photomatt.net/

  • http://www.yald.com/ Patrick Grote

    Martin … I think it’s pretty poor you call someone out for not linking to the blog and then you don’t link to the blog. :)

    This is Matt’s blog:

    http://photomatt.net/

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Martin: anyone who can’t find Matt’s blog probably doesn’t deserve to comment on “blog of the future.”

    Go to Google.

    Search “Matt.”

    Click.
    :-)

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Martin: anyone who can’t find Matt’s blog probably doesn’t deserve to comment on “blog of the future.”

    Go to Google.

    Search “Matt.”

    Click.
    :-)

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Martin: anyone who can’t find Matt’s blog probably doesn’t deserve to comment on “blog of the future.”

    Go to Google.

    Search “Matt.”

    Click.
    :-)

  • Jim Young

    This is a huge simplification, but smart people generally prefer to read, and those with fewer smarts tend to prefer television, YouTube clips, and other ad-riddled/ad-supported garbage. You obviously write for an intelligent audience, and that audience will likely diminish as a result of too much video, for all of the reasons detailed above in other comments. Please, do everything in your power to avoid what Idiocracy hypothesized…

  • Jim Young

    This is a huge simplification, but smart people generally prefer to read, and those with fewer smarts tend to prefer television, YouTube clips, and other ad-riddled/ad-supported garbage. You obviously write for an intelligent audience, and that audience will likely diminish as a result of too much video, for all of the reasons detailed above in other comments. Please, do everything in your power to avoid what Idiocracy hypothesized…

  • jake

    wow. dumb bandwagoneering alert. this is not the future of blogging. I don’t care about anyone’s webcam diaries. I want info, not video, and last I checked text was the most efficient way to communicate that, unless we’re talking engadget product demo video

  • jake

    wow. dumb bandwagoneering alert. this is not the future of blogging. I don’t care about anyone’s webcam diaries. I want info, not video, and last I checked text was the most efficient way to communicate that, unless we’re talking engadget product demo video

  • jake

    wow. dumb bandwagoneering alert. this is not the future of blogging. I don’t care about anyone’s webcam diaries. I want info, not video, and last I checked text was the most efficient way to communicate that, unless we’re talking engadget product demo video

  • Allen Stern

    Martin: anyone who can’t find Matt’s blog probably doesn’t deserve to comment on “blog of the future.”

    Go to Google.

    Search “Matt.”

    Click.

    Does this count for you as well? Who else can we add to the list? Jason? Maybe that will help remove the float that so many live off of.

  • Allen Stern

    Martin: anyone who can’t find Matt’s blog probably doesn’t deserve to comment on “blog of the future.”

    Go to Google.

    Search “Matt.”

    Click.

    Does this count for you as well? Who else can we add to the list? Jason? Maybe that will help remove the float that so many live off of.

  • Allen Stern

    Martin: anyone who can’t find Matt’s blog probably doesn’t deserve to comment on “blog of the future.”

    Go to Google.

    Search “Matt.”

    Click.

    Does this count for you as well? Who else can we add to the list? Jason? Maybe that will help remove the float that so many live off of.

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  • http://www.what-is-this.com/ John

    I don’t always agree with you, but I see that you are objective in your
    postings. Despite the differences I still enjoy reading your posts and I
    often learn even when our viewpoints are different. :-)

  • http://www.what-is-this.com/ John

    I don’t always agree with you, but I see that you are objective in your
    postings. Despite the differences I still enjoy reading your posts and I
    often learn even when our viewpoints are different. :-)

  • http://www.what-is-this.com/ John

    I don’t always agree with you, but I see that you are objective in your
    postings. Despite the differences I still enjoy reading your posts and I
    often learn even when our viewpoints are different. :-)

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  • http://www.nowandnext.com/ Richard Watson

    Some of you guys might like this…

    http://www.nowandnext.com/PDF/extinction_timeline.pdf

    It’s open source so add, delete, amend or otherwise play around with it(I can supply the artwork files if required. Also please note that it’s a bit of fun and shouldn’t be taken too seriously!

    Cheers,

    Richard Watson.

  • http://www.nowandnext.com/ Richard Watson

    Some of you guys might like this…

    http://www.nowandnext.com/PDF/extinction_timeline.pdf

    It’s open source so add, delete, amend or otherwise play around with it(I can supply the artwork files if required. Also please note that it’s a bit of fun and shouldn’t be taken too seriously!

    Cheers,

    Richard Watson.

  • http://www.nowandnext.com Richard Watson

    Some of you guys might like this…

    http://www.nowandnext.com/PDF/extinction_timeline.pdf

    It’s open source so add, delete, amend or otherwise play around with it(I can supply the artwork files if required. Also please note that it’s a bit of fun and shouldn’t be taken too seriously!

    Cheers,

    Richard Watson.

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