"They think that almost everyone who wants to start a blog will have done so by then."
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Yeah, and everyone wanting to have sex will eventually get around to it and then the species will die off for lack of any new people trying it.
A wise man prettymuch hit it on the head when he said;
Writing for an audience of nobody is pretty stupid.
Regarding his brief solo blogging career.
The corporate media has implied that people who have blogs are pajama-clad basement dwellers with no lives. Is this an effort to diminish the bloggers impact, or do keyboard morlocks actually exist?
Posted by TIKI AL at December 14, 2006 02:12 PMI got into this a week or so ago and did it because it is a useful medium for a writer after concluding that the giant corporate content shops are too despicable to chase for work.
Much of it is still mysterious but there is no point in doing it if you aren't ready to weave some community fabric to gather an audience.
And the political blogs like this one are vastly superior to the evil corporate media which has half lobotomized itself.
For example eriposte dug up the real story behind Johnson's condition hours before the cackling swill peddlers launched it and no one is covering Roves downfall.
With any new media launch there is always a surge in use that eventually subsides leaving the entities that had a reason to be there all along.
Posted by Chris Rich at December 14, 2006 02:25 PM2007 peak for blogging sounds probably about right.
But then much of the blogging activity has been driven by the political environment, and if people start blogging about more local or personal stuff (the areas that probably many people write best in involve first-person experiences, i.e. direct reporting) there might be some upside for growth yet.
The possibility of greater network effects kicking in after a certain number of bloggers become active might actually speed up the trend again, as the blogosphere does appear to be decelerating if not yet declining.
Hmm, the disgraced and indicted T. Dale Delay started his own political blog several days ago, and could only take some seventy-five minutes of free and open public commenting. Then his minions shut down the free and "unregistered" commenters and instituted some good old fashioned fascist controls on comments to the T. Dale Delay blog. Way to go, Dale. Why do you hate free speech some much? Why do you hate America so much? It obviously pains you greatly that not all Americans are willing to continue to say Sieg Heil to the Bush crime family...
Cheers.
Is this another Bushism where prouncing it shall make it so? In their dreams.
Posted by mainsailset at December 14, 2006 04:37 PMYeah, and people will get bored with that Ford fellows model T, it won't last either. ;-)
Posted by herbal tee at December 14, 2006 05:02 PMI think it's already peaked. Yaaaaawn.
Posted by Don Bacon at December 14, 2006 06:47 PMIn retrospect, the blogs are/were the natural evolution of the bulletin board era, and those of whom haunted that ethersphere unconsciously embraced, lept at even, this brave new world. I, for one, look forward to what comes next.
Posted by Thomas Ware at December 14, 2006 07:58 PMBlogs are perhaps a final eruption of the printed word as communication---thus in idiot America, with its dumbed-down press and retarded TV "news", they were embraced by the last remaining intelligent readers looking for informed commentary about current events.
Now Blogs are going "visual" with moving images and TV clips showing up everywhere. This will naturally cretinize many of them, just as TV is a cretinized medium. That's what's "coming next", unfortunately.
Posted by euzoius at December 15, 2006 07:29 AM