Micro-blogging is the new evolution of blogging. So does micro-blogging even need blogging? What are the relationships between micro-blogging and blogging?

What is micro-blogging?

We all know what blogging is. This is a blog post. :) What about micro-blogging? Micro-blogging is a miniature form of blogging. Instead of everyone having their own blog, as it is with blogging, users will all go to the same place to micro-blog. There are many places for micro-blogging. A few popular ones are Twitter, Plurk, and Jaiku. The easiest way to understand micro-blogging is by experience. Sign up for one of those micro-blogging websites and take it for a spin. I suggest Twitter – you can follow me here.

I recently encountered a graph that displayed the relation between micro-blogging and blogging. I wish that I saved the link, but I didn’t. I’ll just try to explain it. Basically, with time, the amount of blogging went down and the amount of micro-blogging went up. Once blogging hit absolute zero, micro-blogging plunged straight down. There was then a caption that said something like: “Why did micro-blogging stop? Once blogging stopped, there was nothing left to micro-blog about.”

Does micro-blogging need blogging?

I don’t really agree with this graphic. Again, I wish that I could post a link to it (if anyone knows of it’s URL, please share. I think that it’s on twitpic.) Does micro-blogging really need blogging? It would definitely suffer without. I see many conversations on Twitter that started based on blog posts. I don’t think that it needs it, however. There are many conversations that start from other things. And that’s what micro-blogging has become, a conversational tool. Instead of blogging alone, like normal blogging, micro-blogging is blogging with others. You can talk to others about just anything, even if it isn’t related to a blog post. Again, I really wish that I could share that graphic with you guys. It would make this post a lot more meaningful.