Blogs Will Not Fade Away
From The Future of RSS is Not in Blogs
Like the Internet when it first started, blogs were emboldened by the "cool factor". As the novelty of being new and cool wears off, Internet webmasters and bloggers alike are realizing that maintaining a website or blog is time-consuming. "Coolness" often wears off if a channel is not monetized. With the ease of blogging and the array of blogs available, only a handful will be able to sustain fresh, constant, unique content and generate any sort of reasonable or significant revenue. As a result, blogs as we know them today will fade into the background, with many blogs being abandoned.
While the "cool factor" may be fading away for some people, for many millions it still remains. There is no way, save net safety reasons that may arise in the future, that 16 year old girls and emo kids will stop posting journals online for others to view and interact with their tender pubescent EMOtions.
There is no way that the massively increasing ammount of nerds geeks and dorks will return to the dark days where they felt alone as persecuted weaklings (as some do) in a land of "cool kids" grown up.
In this day and age he who rules the net rules the world, and blogs are a great tool with which to rule. Blogging is proving to be better for groups seaking to communicate then usegroups because they don't require you to join a group, there's no hassle to post anywhere. Bloggers are even binding together to help fight crimes by digging up info on suspects (like the muredere in oregon) and that is quite amazing for a bunch of people who have never met.
I think it is obvious that data feeds have far greater power in them then blogs, but that doesn't mean that blogs won't retain any of that power. I certainly see a bright future for my blog, as a means of communicating and broadening my web presence, tying it all together into one usefull and easy to maintain information point.
Of course many blogs will be abandoned, but I predict not as many as will be created in the near future as the fire continues catch
Comments