In the autumn of 2010, I was asked by a client to help them establish a blog presence. The instructions were straightforward: as the client was going through a big website redesign, they wanted the blog, at the outset, to live off-site, but be visible and enticing enough to quickly build a community and over time drive traffic to the client’s new site. I chose Posterous. Today, I’m regretting that move.

Predictions of the imminent decline of blogging has been with us for some time. Even we wondered about its longterm future as recently as a year ago, pointing to figures that showed, despite the success of Tumblr and Posterous, growth rates were leveling off. A new tally by blog trackers at Nielsen though warns us not to write the obituary just yet, even as blogging faces a new threat. Hint: it begins with a “P.”

Mainstream media and specialist blogs alike are picking up on this nugget from neuroscientist Lady Greenfield, who suggests that the use of social networks can negatively influence the connections in one’s brain, resulting in “short …

There may be light at the end of the tunnel for JPG Magazine, which at the beginning of the year announced it would be closing within days. The popular photography publication built entirely around high …

This is serious. The UK government plans to introduce legislation around retaining email data and rating online content, which if implemented could seriously stifle innovation on the web, not to mention putting a cramp in …

A new tool that’s got some ears pricked is Zentact, a contact-amplifying service co-founded by Eric Marcoullier, known for being a key player in the team that developed MyBlogLog and then sold it to Yahoo …

Another scoop over the weekend for Kara Swisher at AllThingsDigital, who breaks the news that yes, Facebook and Twitter had been in serious acquisition talks for about a month and no, nothing’s going to come …