Blogging. Homesteads. Full Stops. Streams.

My views on blogs and blogging have shaped by practicing the craft for nearly a dozen years. My view, after accumulated experience is that while in the beginning, blogs were at one point a starting point of our social existence, they have morphed into a digital homestead — the final stop in our digital meanderings. Of course, this is not the desired outcome or action for most, but to some of us the concept of digital homestead makes perfect sense. Frank Chimero, a digital designer too believes in homesteading concept.

Jason Kottke, who has been blogging for perhaps longer than I have, feels that the idea of the stream is on the wane and the blog as we know it is dead. While we do agree on the notion that blogging DNS is everywhere, I respectfully disagree with his conclusion, for like others who fail to understand blogging, the argument is


Why I am not sad. Because I have no reason to be!

Earlier this weekend, someone used the Alexa web stats service and compared the daily reach of GigaOM with that of my friends at Techcrunch and that on Mashable, and wondered if I was sad.

Now I could have easily answered this question over on GigaOM, but instead I am leaving that for what it is for — news, analysis and the unfolding story about business of technology. For everything else, I have this blog and that includes questions about my perceived sadness.

For now I wouldn’t bother to point out that we are actually a network of seven blogs and are syndicated to mainstream publications such as The New York Times, BusinessWeek, CNN Money and Salon. Instead, I will just focus on our philosophy and business strategy which doesn’t revolve around mere page views.

When we relaunched the brand new GigaOM design in November 2009, I wrote that “we’ve tried