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You might’ve already know how blog can improve your interaction with your customers (you can read more about it here, and many other links). It can bite and and it can buzz you. Pretty much a sword with two faces. And as a blog grows out, there’s another service that offer the same mean on circulating your content on another form of media.

There’s podcasting, vlogging, and only God knows what to come. Does this “newer” version means that traditional blogging (you know… this one) is getting old? Will people marching leaving blogging for podcasting or vlogging? No, I don’t think so and I believe it won’t happen now, it won’t happen in the future. Why? Here’s why…

1. Not time savvy - people treasure times the most these days. When you listen to a podcasting, you are not in control of listening pace. While in traditional blogging, you are totally in control of it. You know how people can be such a control freak :)
2. Size does matter - How big (in bytes) is a three minutes of podcasting? Now compare that on how much writings that space could’ve save. A sound file obviously took 10 times or more space than text files.
3. Special requirements on viewing/listening - a podcasting is obviously needs a soundcard and a speaker to perform. And although most of computers shipped already have those, how much can be turned on on workspace? Plus, you should also consider people that’s still accessing internet via internet cafe that usually doesn’t give a speaker as an option. While for text files, all you need a computer that plugs to the net.
4. Special requirements on making the podcast - isn’t it obvious that you need a recorder to record your podcast. It’s just not that practical if you compare it to a traditional blogging which only requires a computer and an internet connection
5. The olds never dies - a trivia question, which one will you choose to read in your ‘private time’ in the toilet, an electronic magazine on a PDA or an ink-and-paper magazine? “The doomsday for traditional book has come” is what they say when e-book was founded and yet we still see books selling more than a million copies these days.

Of course, some exclusion might take place (such as a music blog of all people), but in general, podcasting, vlogging, or any other means of a new format of blogging, will not out-grow traditional blogging. What do you think?