Stop Blogging?

An article on WebProNews quotes an article on Wired that it's time to stop blogging -- that somehow blogging has run its course, it's too impersonal and other tools have made it unnecessary.

They contend that using Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, makes blogging unnecessary. I don't agree.

I believe your blog is the hub and foundation of your business communication.  It's where you drive people from your social networking sites so they can go deeper and more intimately with you.

Once people arrive on your blog, you have the opportunity to deepen your relationship, beyond the 140 characters available on Twitter.  The blog is where you educate, entertain, engage and enrich your reader.

From there, your reader begins to know, like and trust you and barriers are dropped. Readers are more likely to subscribe to your newsletter list, register for your teleseminars, buy your products.

Out of curiousity, I put this question out to my Twitter followers and got a few vehement responses:

What do you think?

Is it time to stop blogging?  Can the hot, trendy social networking tools take the place of blogging?

Use the comment link to let us know what you think about this issue!