I am curious about everyone thoughts here, but I am getting the impression these days that people don’t go to their fave web sites anymore, rather they see links to stories or sites they know and follow those links or they just google a topic.

Do people write articles online anymore or is it all video and Youtube and linked from twitter??
What is interesting – speaking as someone who is on a team that produces a lot of original content, it is amazing to see the amount of reposting and linking that goes on when you do write an original story (vs reprint a press release). In one sense, everyone is microblogging to the few remain people who are actually blogging.

To be honest it was Scott Bourne who first called our site a blog to me – until that point I had never really considered fxguide as a blog – heck we started in 1999 – many years before the term blog was first heard.

Recently, I was also called a journalist – again this caught me off guard as we see ourselves as cg artists working in the community. I guess regardless of what fxguide is called, we really just love the community around the site. So it has been great this last week to watch the huge wave of support from the Latino or Spanish speaking community to our latest effort to expand to service the Spanish market. I have to say it has been a pretty big learning curve. For starters – who knew there are so many versions of Spanish spoken worldwide?

Initial reports from just the first episode indicate the Latino community like the work Maria and the team are doing with this new venture (and we’d love you to spread the word if you know people in your area that are Spanish speaking vfx artists).

Anyway as much as we hope to expand our video content to markets such as the Spanish community – we still believe very strongly in the written word, and the community around fxguide’s special blend of stories, news and tips.