I have just read an article over at Wired Magazine that blogging is oh so 2004 and we all need to jump ship if we aren't part of a professional blogging network that dominates Google search results.What Wired says in the article is that bloggers are being taken out of the equation by professionals who blog and put out 30 or so posts a day. They are being taken out of the equation by online magazines that were once, maybe, blogs and are now business ventures. Bloggers are being taken out of the Google rankings by professional media organisations such as NYT, Time, LA Times and others with similar stature. Bloggers are becoming invisible according to Wired Magazine.Wired goes on to explain that bloggers of the personal, one man band nature, are becoming tired of comment trolls, masses of spam, irrelevant audiences and other frustrations. The solution? Move to Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and similar services. I wonder if these services paid Wired Magazine to write this article. Basically I should stop being a self-publisher and move completely to a service that someone else will make money off of? I don't agree at all. I think a merger, hybrid or cross pollination is in order. Not abandoning of the ship at all.I quickly used twitter to feel out some opinions on the topic. (I completely recognise that I am invariably endorsing wired magazine's opinion by using Twitter to get my information for this blog post!)My tweat:nicharry is blogging dead? Is twitter taking over? Should we all jump ship?!?!Some of the responses:markmedia @nicharry no yes nowoganmay @nicharry If everyone jumps ship, who will we be leaving to captain that ship?obox @nicharry I don't think so. There is still space for both, with lifestreams entering the world you can have all the cakes on one page.fromtheold @nicharry Blogging will last long after twitter :)Jonin60seconds @nicharry Slow down there profit of doom!RichMulholland @nicharry No we should simply re-prioritize our weighting on both.It's incredible actually, how many people felt they could respond to something I had said so quickly and easily. This definitely beats responses on blogs hands down.I firmly agree with RichMulholland's comments that we should not be throwing in the towel for either service. We should simply re-evaluate our goals and re-prioritize our focus on the services that are available to us.Blogging isn't dead, blogging is just becoming a force that we need to seriously consider as a profession. Just as reporting back in the day was done by a random one or two people within a town or village and is now down by conglomerates. Things change, let's change with them not fight against the change.I did enjoy the closing line of the Wired article though: "@WiredReader: Kill yr blog. 2004 over. Google won't find you. Too much cruft from HuffPo, NYT. Commenters are tards. C u on Facebook?"