OK, not huge news here, in fact I’ve said it’s the trend over and over again. But here are some facts to back it up:
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Here’s the other side of the coin. Tweetdeck issues a new release tonight.
TweetDeck however thought it was time for a major upgrade in features as well. So along with the ability to sync with the iPhone app, they have implemented an array of new features, small and big. Two of the biggest: multiple accounts and unlimited columns. Here’s a quick highlight of some of the important ones, with screenshots showing these features in action:
1. “Block and Report Spam” button: Clicking on this button will not only delete the spam message, but it will block that specific user and report them to Twitter. Simply brilliant.
2. “Reply All” feature: You can now tweet to everyone who is mentioned in a specific tweet.
3. “TweetDeck Recommends” column: Just as it sounds, it’s a column with a list of recommended people to follow.
4. Deeper video playback support: Qik, 12seconds, and other video clips are fully supported in TweetDeck.
5. Auto-suggest filter: When you start typing someone’s username, it will find the person and allow you to add them to a group quickly.
6. Integration with YFrog for photo sharing.
7. RE (In reference to): A new menu feature that allows you to reference a specific user or a tweet in your own message.
8. Multiple accounts and unlimited columns: Yes, two of TweetDeck’s most requested features have arrived.
And like we said earlier, these are just a few of the features that TweetDeck’s desktop version has added.
It’s just human nature to go to the path of least resistance, so is narcissism. Twitter is that. Journalists are still good bloggers and I enjoy upwards of 200 blogs a day to get the real news rather than the bias of the MSM. For most though, the model has shifted to micro-blogging and the ability to punch out 140 characters from a mobile device is a paradigm shift.

2. “Reply All” feature: You can now tweet to everyone who is mentioned in a specific tweet.
3. “TweetDeck Recommends” column: Just as it sounds, it’s a column with a list of recommended people to follow.
5. Auto-suggest filter: When you start typing someone’s username, it will find the person and allow you to add them to a group quickly.
7. RE (In reference to): A new menu feature that allows you to reference a specific user or a tweet in your own message.






