[...] Life, on the Net, is too short – Hugh Macleod to no longer blog his cartoons via @hjarche – Are we really seeing the death of blogging? I don't think so. I still have a post title "Conversational Blogging" – Go on Google it!. Hugh reflects on the loss of conversation and the fragmenting of it. I've seen and felt the same. What's happening is our blogging platforms are failing us. They are failing to make it easy enough to bring conversations back to us. Sometimes we want and need a fragmented cloud however for the most part we need tools that enable us to keep our lives simple. I think some of the best examples are the Twitter updaters. I think there is lots of opportunity for blogging. Hugh's another signal that all is not right in blog platform land. More importantly he no longer sees it as rewarding. The word blogging may disappear and the idea of a post will certainly carry on. Here comes the "public post" where no stamps are required and anyone can read. …