DISQUS

LareenStrong · 3 months ago

The future of blogging has already begun. One might liken it to the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde…without the evil part.

Blogs will fall into two categories. Dr. Jekyll blogs will be aggregates of news, articles, visual and audio media, and other streams of digital information compiled and presented under one name or title, but presented from a variety of individuals and sources. This blog model will make money, or at least pay for itself, and be well respected by what one would formerly call the “main stream media.”

The Mr. Hyde blogs will not be looked upon as highly as their daytime counterparts. These blogs will be online journals, obligatory corporate blogs that exist only to add content to web pages for SEO purposes, blogs that are updated infrequently and get-rich-quick blogs.

Both types of blogs will continue to exist, but the Dr. Jekyll blogs will thrive and grow, where the Mr. Hyde blogs will come and go as marketing and media tides change, and individuals become disillusioned by not becoming megastars overnight.

SavingDonaldTrump · 3 months ago

Now I want to go read the story so I can see how the blog world will end...or start...or continue :)

Jeff Swanson · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is lifestreams. An aggregation of your blog posts, Tweets, videos, etc. all in one stream on your blogs homepage.

Nathan Hangen · 3 months ago

I think you've nailed it. A combination of audio, video, photo, text, and messaging all rolled in to one.

jeffswanson · 3 months ago

Thanks, nhangen.

At some point, everything will have to be more organized and in one place. Seems to be where it's going.

Shawn Farner · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is on mobile devices. Short bits, pictures and video.

macewan · 3 months ago

Like a personal feed for friends? ;-)

Lianna Sharon Davis · 3 months ago

The future of blogging lies in the development of mini anti-gravity cameras left to follow their owners all day every day streaming the footage into a massive worldwide feed. leaving the blogger no work to be done except to do, be and discuss the most interesting topics they can find daily. Like a worldwide Reality TV show, except actually reality.

jsinkeywest · 3 months ago

You MUST be Irish with a mind like that ;)
that a compliment to the utmost so no lamers be mistaken :)

jsinkeywest · 3 months ago

I know the future in Blogging is ME :) I don't have other people writing for my site.
I don't kiss no ass I have no list and I don't email NO ONE. I worked hard and now make
money.On the serious LIVE BLOGGING is what is going to be popping an a blogger will have
to come from behind the MASK and their STAFF and fake Buddies
So meet me in Vegas John Sullivan from POTPOLITICS it's not about POT :)
I'm faithful to this blog and have stumbled more post then anybody :)
My blog is DO FOLLOW hey google "GoogleBOT who's your Daddy " and you will
come to my house.Although its only at 45k on Alexa I have been preparing for WAR.
I have found being NICE just doesn't cut it and I'm SICK of fake SELFISH one way Bloggers.
I have been ignored but if you look at my blog and the over 2000 do followed Comments
it's easy to see that I will no longer take a back seat to any blogger :)Not on this PLANET
SO JOHN SULLIVAN owner of NeTTeN Inc and a fan of Pete's when this site was where I'm at on Alexa say HOLLA :) and I would of already been LIVE but Ustream sucks I need some serious
bandwidth to let then WORLD know what time it is :)
See you there Thanks ah that felt good

@steveplunkett · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is microblogging in many forms all attached... our tweets/FB status, link to a stream of interconnected blogs that separate content based on niche that contain a video/audio and some type of social hook, which gives feedback and reposts into the twitter stream... to be known as... Google Wave.

Tony W · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is the death of Twitter and the death of the 30,000 word post. Information we want to know will already find us, so the opinions that we state in blogs will all start from a common knowledge base, making posts shorter, more concise and more focused.

Ryan · 3 months ago

I think that blogs will evolve to become one large social network, using an open-ID style login to allow users to comment/participate on any blog/news site/etc. using a single identity. I don't see blogs dying out as the most interesting tweets I see tend to be ones that redirect me to great blog posts. You can't have an in-depth discussion of a subject in 144 characters. If anything, it seems that more mainstream news sites are morphing into social networking/blogging sites. I don't see these sites suddenly dying off because of services like Twitter.

Daniel Haas · 3 months ago

I hope the future of blogging is going to become more global. I've been trying to move all my services: domain names, payment accounts, email accounts and hosting resources from Germany to the US. Different worlds - so sad. The future of blogging simply has to be more global...

Connor Turnbull · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is expanding to more sophisticated and stylish community levels, to make each blog more of a community than a standalond blog.

keithdsouza · 3 months ago

Blogging is already grown so much over the last few years, however it is still in its infancy when compare to bigger media companies, though media companies are more blog savvy these days.

Blogging though has a very big future, there is bound to be much more competition among bloggers and that will give in turn bring out the best among everyone.

Blogging in future will be more trustworthy to users than many current media companies, it will be really interesting to see how bloggers evolve and innovate to make that shift.

tweetamar · 3 months ago

The future of blogging will be a cross-platform self-casting wikis.

I think that Social Media is quickly integrating. It's trending toward a more seamless experience. Less tabs. Less windows. Eventually, the most commonly used social media platforms will allow people to connect cross-platform (regardless of being on Twitter, Facebook, or Friendfeed etc.) - it's probably most equatable to Google Wave - but on a larger scale.

The same way that Google introduced the ENTIRE web to people rather than "most of the web" depending on what search engine you used. In that same way future blogging will allow people to find every tidbit of info across all blogging and micro-blogging sites while commenting on everything real-time. It's going to be great. And I want to be a part of it.

californiakara · 3 months ago

In the future, no one can cares if you blog. Unless they're you're mom, because at the end of the day you can always count on her.

Kara · 3 months ago

The future of blogging? I believe that it will involve a lot more video (since the growth in viewership is exponential) and podcast streaming where users can engage with the blogger. Social media will play a more prominent role in showcasing the blogger's posts so the blogger can grow his/her network with like-minded people through Twitter, Digg, Facebook, and other popular platforms. Mr. Tweet has already caught on to this emerging trend by recommending Twitter users follow other users with the same interests.

Blogging won't disappear but the people who will continue to thrive will a) post unique, interesting, relevant content, b) make full use of widgets like Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, Twitter to engage their audience, and c) find ways to interact with their users to keep the conversation going in real-time on relevant topics.

pamdufour · 3 months ago

Blogs are the new magazine and newspaper articles. A good blogger with credentials, history, and reputation will create the news of today. One Twitter with a link to the blog is all it takes. Be nice to the bloggers, they can change your world!

tiux · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is to be one of the main sources of information for the rest of the online world and probably the not-so-online world. Bloggers usually are the first ones to comment on events that affect them or at least impress them in a particular way, then the "traditional" media and other services (facebook, twitter, etc) pick up on these bits. So, that is the future, the form might change for sure, but it will be like having millions of "correspondents" everywhere in the world live 24x7 non-stop and hopefully without censorship.

blogdefender · 3 months ago

I just finished reading Rubel's thoughts and I have to say I was surprised by the level of pessimism he has for the future of blogs. I can see why he offers such a grim picture: look no further than the withering of the publishing industry or the newspaper--I doubt anyone would argue that blogs are not the evolution of these technologies. As Rubel's argument states, it makes sense that the blog might become similarly (gradually) extinct. But I think he underestimates this medium.

My own take is much more positive.

I think blogs, at their core, offer something different than the newest generation of social media. A blog offers more space, for one thing. It offers more site control than a Twitter or Facebook page. Blogs, which still allow their creators and editors to expand on a topic and discuss complex ideas without the tedium of following RTs and curtailed messages, fill a void that, in my mind, has not yet been taken by Twitter or other new media interfaces.

Blogs are not necessarily a cult of personality (as Twitter pages mostly are). Blogs, however, are just as versatile as the newest social media: the top blogs I read range from professional journalism (politico, the caucus) to the individual musings of my friends and family.

I think blogs will ultimately succeed where other social media have failed. Blogs, which already have succeeded in surviving for years in a social media climate where years are lifetimes, will remain important well into the next 5-10 years.

ROBERTSTOCKHAM · 3 months ago

The future of blogging, as I see it, is multi-faceted. First, I think we are going to see a rise in blogs as a means of communicating news and ideas (like Mashable.com). As print media slowly dies out and the use of paper and trees as a way of communication disappears, we are going to see more and more media outlets using the blogging platform as a way to reach their audiences. Much of what we see as blogs today will merge with video information as we see television merge with online media. The personal blog is going to be slowly replaced by VLOGs as more people replace face to face interaction with face to computer interaction. In the end, the personal blogs are going to go completely extinct as we know it and be replaced with live video micro blogs, shot from hand held devices and uploaded instantly. we are going to see video glasses, that allow link up to see what is being seen by the poster, and gadgets that allow online editing and mashing of video and computer generated content from your phone. We are going to see more and more video being incorporated into live microblogging software and blogs that are idea or ideal centric will become their own community based sites that allow cross the board uploading and imput.

Or we will all go back to using a telephone.

TwtrCoach · 3 months ago

I think Social Media will spark even more life and excitement towards blogging. We will see more creative blogging from the average Joe Blogger. Multi media tools will open new doors and encourage more creative blogs. And more people will participate on blog/social media events both locally and national.

More quality information will be available to the masses. And we will see more blog success stories.

Cheers..

Stuart Foster · 3 months ago

Blogging is going to increasingly become more niched and more product/service focused. This will be aided by improved augmented reality searching (which can pull up blog articles related to the real life subject). Live blogging via video/audio will also become more popular as more real-time search becomes the norm. This way you will be able to glean more information about certain events in a more comprehensive format then short form communication platforms like Twitter.

Blogging has always been about articulating, creating and embracing new ideas. Experimentation will continue but the lines between blogging and lifestreaming will be increasingly blurred. The best long form writers will always have a place in my RSS though :).

I'm excited to see what the future holds. I'd kill for a chance to go to Blogworld though. (This is a much healthier outlet)

Leary · 3 months ago

the future of blogging is <1000 words but >160 chars. Mind you, something will appear without our prior knowledge, that will change the game. Mark my words.

Liz · 3 months ago

In the future, I see all businesses having a blog (or, at the very least, offering dynamic, conversational content) as an extension of their site. I can also see certain businesses converting static sites into blogs.

Organizations are going to be forced to open certain internal communications to the public and invite others to participate in those discussions. Companies that fail to adapt to this change will not be able to compete with those which express a genuine concern and interest in their audience. Microblogging will be a part of this, but not every message can be conveyed under character limits. Video blogging will be a part of this as well, and finally, mobile-friendly web-based communication going to become increasingly popular and important.

Steve Heye · 3 months ago

The future of blogging as a tool that allows personality to shine through your content as an individual will allow it to continue its value. However I think the mixing of tools, widgets and media will make it hard to distinguish that it is a blog. For me, my blog remains my homebase for thinking through ideas and sharing them in my personal site. I think all sites will have a blog that allows their staff, consituents, customers or whoever to show personality through purposeful content. (sorry if this is a little scattered, if I was writing on my blog it would be clearer, I am sure.)

Melody Monk · 3 months ago

Are you kidding? Blogging has the potential to save the world! The more people blogging - the greater the mindmeld and the more potential to find answers to critical questions! Sorry, but facebook comments and tweets are just too short to get to the nitty gritty of an idea. They are the social equivalent of a casual greeting, nice but nothing too indepth. They may even spark an idea that leads to a blog. Blogs, however, are friends sitting down over a long cup of coffee discussing topics they really care about. We need blogs - long, sometimes rambling discourses on every topic under the sun. Forums will automatically develop, the same way people at a family cookout go to their separate corners of interest. In each clique there is the excitement of synergy. Bloggers can cure diseases, provide water in drought-stricken countries, shelter the homeless and feed the hungry. Blog away, I say!

Rab · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is niche blogging. Purpose and context will become ever more specialized with how people choose to express themselves. Bloggers pushing the envelope - incorporating life streams, rich media, and meshing their social graph - seeking better ways to share their passions and experience. Real-time web and mobile devices will continue to morph the way people blog and the way we consume blogs. Merging people and their streams to aggregate preferred content is changing our behavior from consumers of feeds to exploring shared activities. Just ask yourself, DO you blog the same way you did 4-5 years ago?

George Tong · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is cultivating communities with specific interests, and setting an image for themselves.

darinajoy · 3 months ago

Here's a playful, creative acronym as an answer:

B-old
L-earning
O-penings
G-lobally
Giving
Infinite
Neo-tech
Growing

Kate · 3 months ago

Blogging will be all video all the time - including comments

JoAnna · 3 months ago

The future of blogging will involve more people working together in alliances to build groups of blogs with similar goals.

Flavm · 3 months ago

Blogs are here to stay. However, blog evolution remains an interesting topic of discussion. The variety of blogs on the web can appeal to any niche market imaginable. But, sites and services like Digg, Technorati, and RSS help us readers to aggregate and organize the blogs we find interesting. I think the next step in blog evolution will be real-time updates for followers and possibly an aggregate collection of topic blogs, not topic posts. Additionally, traditional journalism is falling off, and its advocates (like Rupert Murdoch and the NY TImes) are more interested in money than delivering information (ie they want to charge you for online access to their news). People on the web don't want to pay for news! They are more than content with their free consumption of blogs, even if it means sacrificing professionally styled grammar (big deal, i know).

Ultimately, blogs have a bright future, and I am curious to see what's over the horizon.

Lee Romano Sequeira · 3 months ago

The future of blogging: Blogs, blogging and bloggers will be the shining STAR of social media. We all all be pleasantly surprised, so keep blogging on!

Travis Vocino · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is not calling it blogging.

That is to say, the separation of blogging and regularly-updated newsesque media will continue to blur and we'll simply have people's personal journals and sites that provide content, like Mashable or TechCrunch or Politico. We don't have to continue to classify them as blogs when traditional media like newspapers and television are using the same regularly-updated, reverse chronological format to deliver content.

brianhoney · 3 months ago

The future of blogging will be continuous. Rather than snapshots of activity, links, or status updates, from an hour ago, or yesterday, or last week... Updates will be continuously available through a variety of channels.

LifePress will allow anyone to generate automated updates, including video and text posting, of whatever you are doing at any given moments. You can of course Pause for privacy, or Record your feed for later viewing.

VideoTwitter will let you stream continuous video, sometimes annotated with text or audio, directly to your followers. People will dip into your stream rather than hit a client to read the last thing you typed. This will impact TV, and live coverage of news events, entertainment. Cameras will be embeddable, both in the body or eyewear, and continuously broadcasting.

Facebook, MySpace, and similar social networking sites will evolve into agents that monitor your computer activities, allowing you to broadcast video, audio, and updates (selected by you of course) of all your activities. Sharing photos, sharing links, posting status updates will be automatic to a great extent - what you expose to the cloud will be in the cloud for all to see.

Of course all this will give privacy advocates headaches, but worries about this will be drowned out by universal adoption by the masses, given the income possibilities of selling ad space - think of it as a continuous Brand Crawl that accompanies all your ContinuousBlogging activities - and participating in Google's AdStreamSense - where Google ads are shown depending on the real-time content of your ContinuousBlogging stream.

Brian K · 3 months ago

What I'm doing now, what we now call "commenting," will be blogging in the future. That will be important because legal standards are going to be set upon blogging, which may limit what or how people produce works.

Comments will fall under blogging and also be subject to those standards.

jsinkeywest · 3 months ago

Dude who cares about the LAW I speak my peace online and in real life :)
but your probably right But for now f*ck Big Brother it's our world :)

Kevin Burke · 3 months ago

The future of blogging lies in the collision that happens between customization and crowd-sourcing. We're seeing it today in minor ways with readers and sites like Digg, but through our social graphs it will become much more interesting and pwoerful. I have no capacity to read more, and yearn to read only what is relevant - particularly things my friends, followers & fans have. Bloggers will further find niches and thus ways to be relevant only to true fans.

Karen · 3 months ago

Blogging is too efficient a method of delivering information to disappear, but I think the term "blogging" may fall out of favor. Bigger sites may stop referring to themselves as blogs as they become so much more than traditional top-down, sequential lists of posts. But whatever blogs are called, I think posts/articles/updates themselves will become increasingly interactive -- more real-time polls, surveys, charts, games, videos and live blogging embedded within posts.

Thanks for the great contest! Good luck to me! :)

David Spinks · 3 months ago

The future of blogging...

I don't think that you can classify blogging under one, overarching use. The fact is that bloggers will use blogs, lifestreamers will use lifestreams, vloggers will use vlogs etc. The format, community, and purpose around the content that we create is entirely up the creator.

The future of blogging is that it will continue to exist as it is. There are different kinds of blogs though...some like short posts, some like long. Some like to write about their life, some about their profession, and some like to make a profit off of their blog. There has never been one way to blog and there never will be.

The shift will occur as tools are continuously developed to appeal the niches within the blogosphere.

We will see professional bloggers and professionals that blog will continue to use "long form" blogging and recreational bloggers will increasingly turn to tools like tumblr, posterous and twitter.

Also, I think we'll start to see a BIG blurring of lines between "official" news publications and blogs. Blogs will become an increasingly important source of news (whether news corps want them to or not), and the publications that survive will have successfully integrated with blogs and communities.

"Blogging" has become a very broad term that encompasses many uses...and it is not going anywhere anytime soon.

@DavidSpinks

Ward (Wardo) Tongen · 3 months ago

I think in the future blogs will contain a representative cross-section of all human thought. If you combine what is happening with personal intelligent search agents and bind it to an advanced mobile device interface (heads-up display, voice query input, etc.) you will be able to access this "uber-blogoshere" anywhere instantly.

corinacornish · 3 months ago

The future that is see for blogging is one of bringing communities back together. We've already seen how the internet, social media, etc can connect people in all different parts of the world...now I think we will see people re-connecting within their own communities. For example, new social networks link together renters and property owners of some apartment and condo complexes. Now owners can have a direct link to the everyday concerns that impact their property, and can hopefully respond to tenant issues promptly and directly. Or something simple - like posting on Twitter about how you love a local restaurant - becomes a forum that can increase local business, promote community loyalty, and empower people to tackle problems on a domestic level. I hope that blogging, microblogging, and the like will continue to connect us to the whole world, and to our neighbors that we see each day but may not really know!

DeirdreReid · 3 months ago

Blogs will become the homebase for individuals. It's where we'll express our thoughts that expand beyond 140 characters or share out videos and photos. It may be a personal homebase or a professional homebase or both (although I imagine that might seem Sybil like). It's where our different networks can find our body of work and links to our other outposts on the web.

For companies, it will be where they can keep a conversation going with their prospects and customers. Like individuals, it will be the link between their presence in other outposts. Blogs will give us a sense of the personality and culture of a company, more so than their web site.

Zane Safrit · 3 months ago

What is the future of blogging?

World domination. Nothing less.

The future of blogging is world domination by real people speaking in real voices about their real worlds...on their real blogs, their real cool blogs, that are really theirs.

That's the future of blogging. And it's big.

Nabweekly · 3 months ago

With a different meaning to many people, the styles, themes design and written presentation are a very important attribute in an effective blog to represent a company with creative, energetic and positions on a business. The future of blogging is in the eyes, brains, and souls of individuality, with no two alike.

Blogs are becoming the new way of individual company newsletters, replacing the email newsletter which has proven to be somewhat of a hindrance with the amount of images that need to be displayed on a promotion in one letter many times ending up in the junk mail of an email folder.

Company blogs have become the website extension with the need of frequent updates to keep the customer base interactive and never get left behind or lost in the hustle of the busy internet world.

Blogs give advertising products or services with cutting-edge marketing and advertising ideas to help increase customer base whether looking for visual image, creative writing, slogans or designs creative techniques. The future of blogging is the new world of promotional advertising.

Blogs just make Ad sense

shilonikelle · 3 months ago

Good bloggers will get paid. Everyone writing drivel will melt off the face of the earth.

Collages.net · 3 months ago

Blogs are the future magazines. Why spend $3-$5 on a magazine in a genre of interest when you can read hundreds of blogs on the same topic? Plus you can instantly comment with your opinion and read what other like minded or not like minded people think as well.

Morgan · 3 months ago

Overall, the premise of blogging will not change that drastically over the next 10 years. Of course, the platforms will continue to evolve (Wordpress, etc.)...but the process of sharing ideas and interests will stay the same. Those that truly enjoy the art of blogging will stay true to its current form and foster community around its content.

Blogging is (and will continue to) change the music industry. As more people turn to blogs to discover new music, the major labels will become more accepting. I would hope that the music blogging community will evolve and self regulate over time. Placing more focus on promoting ways to connect with the artist, download music, purchase physical copies of the music, and buy tickets to see them live.

PS. Blogworld needs a music blogger track where a productive conversation between artists, bloggers, and labels can be facilitated.

Amy Littleton · 3 months ago

The future of blogging -- more reporters fewer independents; more entry from and greater acceptance of blogs arising out of reputable news sources.

The future of blogging -- noise, noise, noise. So many talking, so few listening.

happygrrrl · 3 months ago

Blogging will be the new libraries. People will no longer print books or magazine or scholarly journals. Students and professionals will simply search through blogs for the info they need. I also see a need for some kind of accreditation for blogs that are mostly news/research and those that are mostly opinion/fun.

Wes Chyrchel · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is automation, better apps, api's and niche social networks. Bloggers need better mobile tools to get the information out, i.e. video editing, linking uploading. This has to transfer better to more mobile devices. Some tools are there, but they don't compare to their online client equivalents. People are already splintering off into specific groups of interest like how magazines have evolved. We will see a merge of the blog and micro social network. BuddyPress is already there and many blogs are behaving that way, but don't have the "stickiness" or news stream that is needed. I am excited by this evolution as technology makes it easier for the average user to publish and pass the information on. Just think of all the information we are not getting!

Trigeia Twins · 3 months ago

Blogging will not change in the way that people create information, Although, it will change in how we get our information. No longer will you have to search for you information, It will just show up. when you turn on you TV it will up date you with current news, products and services. When you get in your car it will do the same. Talk about Information overload!!!! This Information will be specifically targeted to my interest. So it never seems like Spam =)

stacy · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is in the minds of our youth, and we are showing them the ways of NOT to do things. Just as hindsight is 20/20, we'll look back to now and say "why did they DO THAT?"

studiomesh · 3 months ago

I think I would go with the Darwinism theory. More specifically, new formats will make blogs obsolete (Just check out Google Wave).

Robert Wagner · 3 months ago

One word...Posterous

BobbiJanay · 3 months ago

The Future of Blogging is as vast and open as the future of the world, everyday it is a changing and evolving. A year ago it was basically diaries on computers, now it is anything that can be dreamed up. I am not sure what the future of blogging is but one thing I am certain of is that I and many others will be and are part of that future and excited to see where it takes us.

Nancy Nally · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is a two-tiered system. There will be a top layer that will replace or join the so-called big media of today. We already see some of this starting with sites like the this one and the Huffington Post and blog networks. These are written by professional full-time writers and are held to traditional journalistic standards.

Then there will be a lower level of private personal sites. As more and more of the population gets on the web, the options for successfully monetizing these sites will be reduced because there will simply be too much competition.

This system is already evolving in part but I think the real difference is going to be the monetization isn't going to be available anymore to any but the largest, most professional sites.

guttersnipe · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is stories in all their formats whether it be news, videos, microthoughts/comments, fiction, poetry, pictures or whatever other format that can be conceived. It is the endless possibility of imagination unconstrained by locality, genre, space and time. It is hope for connecting people across oceans whether they are literal or figurative. It is the honoring and showcasing of complexity through simplicity. It is the potential of transparency.

The future of blogging is also learning about boundaries, security, and identity. What can be shared versus what should be shared. What brings repercussions versus what brings opportunities. What is a part of you versus what is outside of you.

The future of blogging is only constrained by its limitlessness.

lenkendall · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is the irrelevance of the letter "b". The "b" signifies "web" and we are no longer confined to a specific place. We're streaming our thoughts and lives outside the radius of our workstation and really changing "blogging" to simply "logging."

saeedramazany · 3 months ago

in far future there will be a site that will contain every thing with ability to vote.every one will have a portal that all of his/her votes will be shown there.no more writing or long times to read.Just whats your vote about it?(it will show how you see world!)

cockerspc · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is user engagement, not just because that's what the audience is demanding but what advertisers want too.
The birth of social networking means that - for the first time - people can express their opinions directly within a specific community. They are no longer just passive and casual readers of blogs - they want to have their say too.
For the blogger to survive in the face of this new phenomenon, he/she needs to be less first person narrative and more community leader, both feeding and fueling their community rather than simply conducting a one-way conversation.
It's a win win situation because from the user's point of view it's a better blog experience; from the editor's point of view it's better interaction with the audience (which in turn means more PVs) and from the advertiser's point of view it's much better engagement with their brand.

jprucher · 3 months ago

I can tell you the future, how it all ended. Blogging as a freedom we now take it for granted... its not pretty but SFW...

As blogs continue to critique big business and offer unbiassed personal opinion, and as sites for micro-blogging such as Twitter continue to show itself as a source for quick dissemination of information during political and cultural unrest, governments and global corporations will begin to panic. (Even the stuffiest politicians will loosen their ties and roll up their sleeves in an attempt to keep their position of power.) There will be a quiet movement to bring the most trusted blogs under the control of corporations and governments. They will keep the cooperating bloggers to disseminate the "controled" information. What will be left, what we will know as blogs will be government and corporate websites of controlled information. The Bloggers that refused to participate will be "disscredited" in a well planned Media campaign. That will end phase one. (And it will be done quietly; mostly at night.) After that, personal blogging will be criminalized by the United Nations. Everything will have to be filtered through a "Pre-Publication Division" of each respecting country's "Department of Print Accuracy" within their "Information Ministries". Anyone starting a website that is used to express "counter-productive" opinion will have the unauthorized blog taken down immediately and the authors will be punished in world court, unless they're mysteriously killed in plane or car crashes. (Which of course would be just a coincidence, or at worst; bad timing.)

blackfeathers · 3 months ago

Without going into much detail, the future of blogging has to take into account the current momentum push into the next, definable and describable thing that users will ultimately accept or concede as an ubiquitous blogging standard -in authors' and readers' personal workflows, in both their contributions, participation, and interaction. Whatever it will become, the significant number of users' general acceptance or consensus of usage is key.

While the majority of attention goes into the bigger picture of where it's headed, the small incremental changes add up and point each step in a given direction. Countless folks and entities out there -such as Mashable and Scobleizer- have their fingers on the pulse on where these steps may lead in the near-present to the near-future. The point of all this focus is to look and find where it's headed.

At one time all forms of blogging were essentially a static platform in its purest sense. It was great for its time because it introduced and transitioned new users familiar with all forms of static news outlets, such as magazines and newspapers, into an electronic form. This gradually introduced a paradigm shift in society where people became more familiar with how useful and current the Internet could be, despite never experiencing anything quite like it before. Back then, users felt more in-the-now as they became more familiar of what it could do for them.

Out of static pages arose the need for more dynamic content based out of a more sophisticated backend that web developers built from the ground up. Innovation was brewing all the time in many forms of scripts, templates, content management systems, and other improvements to get things done more conveniently and practically.

During its time, moblogs (short for mobile blogs), showed us a picture or window into realtime. What is happening now could be shared almost instantly with countless folks on the Internet. It grew a strange curiosity in people to see what their friends and public figures were doing at that time. The saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words" was put into practice and taught many users that a visual representation of a blog can be compelling -that multimedia was compelling.

The impact of this general appeal required the Internet to be faster, machines to run quicker, developers to code better. This technological impetus is an essential push to facilitate further progression, development, and sophistication on what everyone can do. The Internet is more widely realized as a developing platform with so much potential in operating on content in realtime and introducing more people to what interests them.

Currently, the most straight forward indication I see of what the future of blogging can likely be is the idea and representation of Google Wave in its purest and most purposeful form -what is it doing today and in the future? We see a mash up of components and a higher sophistication of timely information control. In other words, realtime, dynamic, personable, social interaction is the near future of blogging.

Loosely speaking, Twitter, Friendfeed, and Facebook are at the top of the game partly because they are utilizing varying degrees of realtime components with a rather large, active userbase who can access that information virtually anywhere. This competition requires a newer round of features that users will expect and a significant consensus accepting what users, developers, and bloggers will use. It also requires nurturing the best parts of what makes a social network a success. This blurring of lines merely shows us that everything is related as whole where emerging properties may arise.

In a bit more depth, Facebook's Friendfeed is a step towards Google Wave because it teaches users more about aspects of realtime in threaded discussions, shared content, syndication, and participaton. As a part of Facebook, it can introduce more users into newer and more advanced concepts of utilization. The users sustain theses services actively and pro-actively while incorporating it into their daily lives.

Likewise, this realtime aspect can be incorporated into blogging in many ways. An author can treating a realtime page like an ever-changing, update-able bulletin board where content could be posted and modified as it happens. The same can be said about realtime comments, responses and moderation. Existing platforms are already built that simplfies facilities for the user. As already currently experienced, the user is better able to focus more on content than hard coding. Realtime in this sense would be akin to a logged chatroom where the logs may be updated as it goes on.

Using a very loose visual analogy in capabilities with respect to dimension:
Say, for instance, that early blogging has an x-axis that represents progress and sophistication in the development of static content. Current blogging has a y-axis in dynamic page automation built out of necessity, introducing an element not seen on x.

The growth of more users and processes brings forth a z-axis. This newer axis contains more sophisticated progress in modular scalability, letting us step away from a "flat-lander" 2d mentality and towards a more emerging property. While it may sound like a stretch, components such as widgets, RSS, and even distribution into clouds are examples of this. In other words, the content may exist in many forms, in many places, and in many parts seen as a whole.

Extending this idea further, one might perceive that time -in the form of realtime web- introduces a significantly new dimension to the Internet and to blogging. Whatever you may call it, the nth-axis of time brings new possibilities and changes in a dimension never before perceived. It grows out of existing technologies, develop more purpose when a need is made apparent, and will develop emerging properties of its own.

kagorges · 3 months ago

Blogging will gradually become converwiki where people will begin a conversation with some thoughts or perpectives based on personal experience, including video/photos/art completely integrated into a wiki type of platform. Then there will be a twitter/facebook like stream for the conversation to happen, viewable by friends/followers. Everyone can contribute and advance the thinking. Converwikis is where blogging is going ;)

caroldekkers · 3 months ago

Blogs will be to business as breath is to life... natural, unconscious, part of the everyday experience by everyone.

Young · 3 months ago

If the future blogging will be microblogging, then from where we get the killer thoughts? Whatever how popular twitter will be, I think we still need to reader a post more than 140 words. But I dream the blogging can be more easy and funny, such as we can use WordPress or other blogging platform without installing any plugins, we can add pics and videos to blog via mobile phone easily, we can design the blog theme with mouse clicks, and so on.

Steve · 3 months ago

In the (no so) distant future, aggregated information from our lifestream will be syndicated and presented holographically in individual immersive environments. Not long after that, we will just plug our brains directly into a global network, where any information will take on whatever structure and form that we decide. As for today, if I win a ticket, I'm ready, willing and able to attend BlogWorld in real life!

Jennifer BOYD · 3 months ago

The future of blogging...News faster than the speed of light, a community where all eyes are on you, free-for-all journalism, intrigue through digital reality, passionate opinions with a cause, a comment gone awry.

sundog02 · 3 months ago

The future of Blogging: I post to my Blog. My Blog pings Ping.fm. Ping.fm sends info on to all my other sites and more. Those sites ping Ping.fm. An endless loop on itself starts that brings down almost all social sites. Everyone Tweets about it. Fail Whale arrives. People panic as they are no longer able to connect online. I leave the rest to your imagination...

adriarichards · 3 months ago

The future of blogging will allow for people to begin blogs at birth.

Your parents will register your blog at a family name space or register your own custom domain based on preference. You will learn the importance of interacting with others and #crowdsourcing will be taught in preschool.

Your medical records will tie into your blog identity through a system similar to OpenID or OAuth. Your teachers will be able to input homework assignments, grades and updates to your blog.

Finances will also tie into your blog space. Resumes will certainly be digital in the future and your blog will be viewed as an ongoing, historical timeline of who you are.

Now you may be concerned about people knowing so much about you. Get over it. There will always be those among us who wish to remain under the radar but the Internet will continue to provide a fertile breeding ground for data scraping so why fight the inevitable that we will "be" online?

As we proceed into high school, flirting will occur on our blogs. Email will be tightly integrated with your blog identity. People will have widgets that represent the continent they live on. Maybe Tomagotchi's will make a comeback on blogs as virtual pets.

When you become an adult, your blog can be tied into your employer's company blog, allowing other employees to easily find and connect with others who share their same interests. Forget LinkedIN! An interesting idea would be a weekly email of employee announcements generated from an algorithm based on your recent blog content.

I seen automation on blogs as a big part of our future. The need to update your blog with, "Got a new job!" or "I'm attending the 2025 Blogword conference!" will be automatic as blogging software will scan your email and calendar for these type of events and leave draft posts for your approval.

Health care will vastly improve because our blogs will record our health stats. By the times problems begin to appear later on in life, we will have detailed health records that are linked to posts, life events and the weather. This will help our children and our children's children with family planning and health management.

When we die, our blogs will stand a testament to who we were, what we accomplished and how people will remember us. Instead of newspapers charging an arm and a leg for "virtual" grieving areas, our personal blogs will serve this purpose to for eternal eulogies.

Centralizing our life data of contacts, email, public and private communication on our blogs is what the future holds.

I would love to take this vision to Blogworld 2009!

Melanie Widmann · 3 months ago

It's interesting to me that blogging is being considered "something" - a blog is realistically a platform that enabled people who weren't coders to have their own website. They are called "new media" articles right?
Easily to deploy and some sites are completely built on blog platforms.

So what blogs realistically do is offer a quickly deployed place to post content and earn earn revenue and have free subscriptions - smells like a media site to me and there is nothing wrong with producing high quality content supported in some way.

So the future of blogging relies more on the ways people will earn revenue for their thoughts. People will increasingly subscribe and import feeds into their own social portals or spaces and so decreasing traffic to sites -- decreasing site rev dollars. The fix, the future? Ad units will be place in RSS and other feeds. So the monetization will change but people will remain people and content will remain content. I blogged about this using NYTimes and Twitter as the example.

The types of feeds you can subscribe too will change too - multimedia for examples - maybe even control over what type of media you want displayed through the feeds. MRSS with video ads.

Doug Camplejohn · 3 months ago

When television was first invented, people didn’t know what to do with the medium and were filmed reading radio scripts in front of a microphone.

This seems silly now, but early blogs have also borrowed from known media metaphors, and in a few years I think our early blogging efforts will look just as quaint.

I think blogs of the future will look less like a conference speaker or panel talking to an audience who ask questions and comment at the microphones.

I think blogs of the future will look more like a gathering place for individuals with shared interests, with conversations and updates about those interests streaming into the site from many places in real-time.

I think these sites will have simple but powerful tools that let you filter the signal from the noise based on your location, social graph, and other deeply personal filters.

I think these sites will have ways of letting this filtered conversation continue to follow you, even when you’re away from the site.

I think I’m excited for this future.

Laurent Rozenfeld · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is Harry Potter!!!

Or should I rather say The Daily Prophet! I see a future where Kindle and the like will be replaced by wifi equipped electronic paper that will have mashups of texts, videos and sound sourcing from newspapers, magazines, TV, mobile phones and of course blogs and other social media streamlined in real time. Blogs will become mainstream and merge with the rest and the speed of reaction from “social media” users will increase drastically.

Your e-paper will be your connection to personalized information and the main communication tool will be the mobile phone (or an integrated camera and microphone for version 2.0). You will be able to create your own templates such as professional paper or tabloid style. You will also be able to select the content based on the time of the day or filter on interest. This means there is room for all kind of “blogs” whether personal or professional. The way we will gather our information, apprehend it, use it and share it will change.

Most blogs will become vlogs. People will use their mobile phones and e-paper to share their thoughts and experiences or comment other peoples’ threads. This of course will be updated real time.
e-Paper is actually the future of Microsoft Surface, pdas and smartphones; it’s portable and yet has a much larger screen, bendable and will not break if falling, it will recognize your movements and the way you fold it, etc. and blogging will play a great role in helping to adopt such a tool.

Of course it also means that there will be full integration between different platforms such as blogs, social network, etc.

Did someone say FB Connect???

And the beauty of this? Adverts will be interactive and totally personalized and you will be able to differentiate between free and paid content. It will actually help revive the dwindling business of paper press.

Only issue I see is energy consumption…
Well you know what you have to do, start investing in wireless energy transfer systems :)

Is this sci-fi? Well, maybe till 2019 July 29th…

gally82 · 3 months ago

Well the future of blogging isn't a simple description. We will never take over the news media. The news media will eventually incorporate us. Twitter has shown what a valuable tool it is. If twitter had never become the go to access point of public/media then ESPN would never have banned it's employees from using it to relate news. I thoroughly believe that at some point all the major outlets will buy out the smaller blogs. This is by no means a reflection of the quality of smaller blogs, but rather the need for the large news operations to stay on top.

This doesn't mean we will be diluted by any means at all. Instead, it more likely means that there will be more competition to be one of the blogs bought by the larger sites. This increased competition will improve the quality of reporting. Instead of a few jerk offs writing news, or specifically sports news, there will be millions. That means, that we will all know everything once it happens.

It doesn't just mean that there will be increased competition though. The expanded knowledge will help all interested parties. The increased competition will help all those involved become greater writers. I may not be the greatest writer, but I am getting better. If the blogging world didn't exist, than I wouldn't be participating. If I was not participating, then I wouldn't have the chance to become a great sports writer.

Where the future of blogging exist's is potential. Without the access and potential to contribute to the sports world, those of us that didn't realize that we could be great writers, would never do that. The chance to practice and receive ongoing commentary is what makes those of us that have never been to J school great. If I were to publish a book now, it would likely be very poorly received. Nobody would know who I am or what I do. Blogging allows us to practice our trade and receive valuable feedback from others. This feedback is what makes others great.

Sure Posnanski might have had the talent to be a great writer. But without the blogging world to practice upon and receive feedback, he might never have become great. Instead of having one editor, he has many editors. We read his columns, and those of us that do not, are recommended to by other bloggers.

Blogging has become an infinite chain of learning, developing and writing. We are all out here reading one another and helping each other out. We also recommend the best of us to all of our friends. That is what makes it special. There's an internal feedback loop, which if not followed means that we won't be promoted or followed.

The Future of blogging is instant access to information of all kinds. To take it a step further means that, we will have access to good information. The good/great authors/storytellers will get everything across. The rest of us, will have access to second rate information from those of us that were not able to blog interestingly/correctly/popularly.

FireMom · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is much like the future of the world: uncertain. The ins and outs of what will happen, what will become and how we will get there in one piece aren't easily determined. There are, however, some tried and true facts that will follow the blogging world wherever we go:

1) Trolls will always troll. Those that find comfort and power in the anonymity of sitting in a dark room with their fingers on a keyboard will continue to harass others. Technical changes in our blogging future might make it more difficult but, in fact, it could also become easier.

2) Bad writers will still write. Blogging has opened the writing world to people who have no concern for grammar, spelling or coherence. Technological advances won't magically remove them from the blogosphere. In fact, if blogging becomes even more accessible, the number of bad writers will continue to rise.

3) Thankfully, good writers will still exist. Gems of blogs will still pop up, drawing in readers like moths to flames. Their existence will make up for point number two, causing us to forget about the existence of their lesser counterparts for the length of time it takes to read their well-crafted post. We will aspire to be like them and we will fail. We will talk about them over dinner as if they are our real life friends. These writers and their artistic counterparts (photographers, physical artists and so on) will justify the blogosphere.

I don't know much about the future of blogging other than those three points. I do hope, however, that the changes awaiting us will provide me with a wealth of knowledge and laughs over my lifetime.

C. H. · 3 months ago

“What is the future of blogging? I think blogging will evolve.Blogs will become Facebook 'Notes' and Flicker image descriptions and anything else that can be read online. In my opinion, all of the status updates on social networking sites are merely simple blog entries.

Blogging is a fundamental aspect of our social web today, providing freedom of expression to so many who blog or comment on blogs; it will continue to be a concept used by our future social web; just an evolved concept.

samwallace · 3 months ago

Woodstock era activist/entrepreneur ready to move into 21st century. Looking for a future beyond tie-dye. The journey is the future.

kylehansen · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is making things more simple, more organized by topic and area of interest. Also, the mainstream needs to have a more simple way to access blogs. There needs to be a way for the mainstream to believe in the credibility of blogs.

George Angerbauer · 3 months ago

Blogging is a one-to-many medium and, like its print media progenitors, will be (and already is, in part) subsumed within the larger digital sphere. It will not die, however, but will evolve in its own right -- as in mobile, geo-spacial, and voice dictation integration -- and become part of the granular texture of increasingly personal, relevant, and monetizable networks that harvest content to support the many-to-many entities and relationships that are the future of the web.

Phil · 3 months ago

There is no future of blogging, it will die.

skipfredricks · 3 months ago

There is no future to blogging. Blogging by its archaic definition was "Web Logging" the practice of putting up a diary type long form journal on the web. Well Twitter, pretty much killed the 'blog' concept as people begin to provide minute by minute information and users began consuming minute by minute information, at one location in an easy to find app, that they could get both on-line and on a mobile device. Now add in Facebook "status Up-dates, MySpace adding Status Up Dates and even the new Yahoo mail adding a "What are You Doing Now' Button, And we have all become "bloggers" by posting our most boring minute by minute details of of lives... and non of us our bloggers.. because we are consuming that information from one destination social networks, and not receiving that information from a bloggers website blog. Who clicks on a "blog" for one individual on a mobile device, when I can follow dozens on my Twitter app. and get the information I need in a short one sentence bite, instead of in the long winded ramblings of a blogger. I'll go you one better, You Tube better re-design as more of a social network before they become irrelevant as more users continue to watch and get there videos on Face Book. Or How about RSS Feeds, Podcasting, There days are numbered as Social Networking is going to make all of those content aggregation platforms obsolete as people get their content from Social Networks both online, mobile and thru mobile apps.

Jason Fry · 3 months ago

The future of blogging is people finally looking past the term, which has become so freighted with expectations and prejudices that it's an impediment to blogging itself.

Blog software doesn't have to produce crowdsourced journalism, political jeremiads or minutiae about one's daily life (from the inevitable groan-inducing basement). It's just a convenient way of making and/or updating a Web page or other digital service, and you can do most anything with it. For example, I used blog software to produce my mostly static personal site in an effort to shut up some business-side folks in my company who were so full of helium about how blogs would transform society that I feared they'd float off into power lines and get hurt.

Minus the overheated/uninformed obsession with blogging, it'll become a term used as shorthand for a certain style and rhythm of writing, and for the tools to publish that writing. Which will probably be seen as a sign of failure, but will actually be proof of success. You know revolutions have truly succeeded when people stop talking about them.

Jorge Martinez · 3 months ago

Blogging is not going away anytime soon. The way we log and consume content will evolve and introduce new formats like RSS and tweets. Blogging as a verb may be replaced by another word coined by every-day folk but that shouldn't be a surprise. Our parents never used the term when they were younger but they definitely blogged. Back then it was called scrap booking and writing a diary.

I agree with the general consensus that as we become more mobile our logs will be much shorter. Twitter is already getting us warmed up. These personal streams will come from many sources and nit all if it will be from a traditional computer. We may be at an event some technology may allow us to share with others that we are here (foursquare) as well as allow us to contribute to what we may learn at this location. Think mobile wiki. Wiki anywhere.

What I believe will make all this work are tools like disqus and facebook connect. These tools allow us to aggregate data coming from many sources into one self contained, streamlined manner.

David Cyphers · 3 months ago

The future of blogging, you ask? No offense, but I would have thought it would be a more difficult question for such a valuable reward. I see the answer as very simple.

Blogging will be the exact same forever. It hasn't changed yet, and it won't change in the future. If it changes, it becomes something else completely (i.e. twitter). That is why blogging will always be "a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video." (wikipedia.org - about as empirical as you can get)

Now don't get me wrong - I'm not saying everything is going to stay the same. And blogging is definitely going to wane in terms of popularity, because everything has a product life cycle. (Even the internet will go out of use when we can all just communicate via telekinesis) But blogging will always be blogging. Blogs become popular for the same reasons today that they did in 1999 (yes, blogs were around back then). People value valuable information (groundbreaking insight, I know). We might have more options for the "share" button, and there will always be new ways to package our information, but blogs have value because of their content. For blogs to change in any meaningful way, the content itself would need to change. And when blogs have been used for personal journals, business insight, event updates, and just plain randomness, how ELSE could the content change? For blogs to change, we'd need something new to write about. When we've been writing almost as long as we as humans have been around (Beowulf, The Bible), that's a pretty tall order.

But if you told me that blogs would definitely change, and I had to guess how? I'd say writers would use more parentheses (because that's obviously what the popular, contest-winning blog commenters are doing).

Sara Jantsch · 3 months ago

The Future of Blogging:

Blogging is one of the initial and longest standing forms of internet communication. That is why it is so great – it is stable and dependable. It is not going to disappear any time soon.

In the future, I only see blogging as continuing to grow and expand. It will carry on to be a major form of communication. For example, my parents called me today to tell me all about their travels they were currently living through. The funny thing was, I knew all about their travels because of blog posts before I even talked to them. I already knew every story they were telling me. Strange that I find out more about my parents from the internet than I do from them picking up and calling me these days.

I have a couple friends traveling abroad currently and the only form of communication I have is through blogging. Also, recently we went on a family vacation with my extended family and we set up a blog for the people that could not attend. We posted pictures, funny moments and entertaining stories from the vacation for the viewers at home. Finally, my Grandparents of all people have subscribed to my RSS feed and enjoy reading my blog a few times a week. My Grandpa even clicked on a link to Twitter and now enjoys reading tweets throughout the day.

Blogging is the Future. At least in my family it is.

Liz Philips · 3 months ago

The future of blogs?? A lifestream of social media activity aggregated into "channels" on a blogging platform - you can direct relevant activities into the channel (work, personal, kids, hobby) that makes most sense so people can tune into the stuff that's relevant. Also these specific feeds can be syndicated to other networks and hubs where people congregate (think: a channel just for people who like to worm compost -- all of my feed about worm composting would be fed there). Mobile multimedia device will enable live feeds of video/audio content to one's blog. Very exciting possibilities ahead!!

Marlo Mckenzie · 3 months ago

Blogging is democracy and positive change in action. It's a reminder that everyone is special and no one is special. It's a mirror on ourselves and right now we're just staring in that mirror like monkeys and slowly coming to the realization that as a human race we've been very destructive and now we have to start acting to change that.

I see the future of blogging as the heart of reclaiming community, and reclaiming that essence that makes us feel alive -- bloggers will lead the way in pointing to the change happening at the grassroots level and connect those with skills to those in need. Bloggers will be the storytellers, the griots that preserve the sacred, and preserve snapshots of history. Bloggers will push technology, yet shine a light on it where it has crossed a line. Bloggers en masse will remind us we are all connected, we are all one family and life is very very good, if that is what you choose it to be.

kristacantrell · 3 months ago

In the beginning blogs were “single” statements. (Most blogs are still isolated commentaries.)
Now “cluster sites” are creating social platforms.
A few insightful companies and individuals are involved in the development of “gateways and partnerships.” (It takes mashups to the next level.)
But the next cycle is really exciting for blogs, vlogging, podcasts... it’s creating “archways of information.” More than just content, it will combine a virtual environment to create “a simulated, three-dimensional world that a user can manipulate and explore while feeling as if he were in that world,” with the blogger as “personal assistant.”
Now the web becomes a “digital landscape that incorporates the illusion of depth.” (Credit to Paul Otellini for the two quotes.)
Bloggers are not a dying breed. Instead everyone will want their “personal assistant avatar” because it now gives an emotional content with a twist.

As for me, I want to go to the conference to:
• listen for the “space between the words/worlds”
• participate in the discussion of the next level of user-generated content, and
• report back what I discovered.

David Billson · 3 months ago

I don't think there is any way to define where blogging is heading. Certainly with all the content that's being generated worldwide, I think part of the answer will involve aggregation and segmentation of the content. Sources like Mashable will continue to grow in importance. I believe premium content authors will continue to gain solid reputations while the newer start-ups or those that do not spend the appropriate amount of time/effort on their content will filter to the background.

However, I think trying to quantify blogging trends is much like quantum physics - by the very definition of trying to define it, you can't.

Michael Miranda · 3 months ago

I think its future will be something similar to a voice command blogging similar to Star Trek with the Captain's logs.

Cody Gibbs · 3 months ago

This is a trick question and I will tell you why. 12pm cannot be the due date because is not a specified point in time. The reason is that there is zero time between ANTE MERIDIAN (before the sun is above your head) and POST MERIDIAN (after the sun is above your head), and even if there were we could not properly label that period of time AM or PM without being incorrect or confusing.

And, if bloggers continue to insist on running contests and building their content around such fictitious and nonsensical time periods, this corresponding "future" you speak of cannot exist. In fact, in will create a lapse in time and space where the gravitational pull (see also: need for attention) every blogger inherently creates will collapse in itself, forming a interdependent ring (see also: ning, sphere) of starving purple cows...oh, and something about social media, crowd sourcing, and let's throw a 3.0 in there somewhere. Vegas baby.

Nathan Hangen · 3 months ago

We are already seeing glimpses of this future, but we are waiting for someone or some thing to put it all together for us.

For example, Chris Brogan uses a combination of Twitter, video blogging, WordPress blogging, and audio (via posterous) to create a full "Brogan" platform. From those feeds, you can use a service, such as Twitterfeed, to send them to a single output. Yahoo pipes, which I believe is going to assist in the future of blogging, can hep do this as well.

A single blog just doesn't capture enough of our thoughts and as Twitter continues to create this mindset of "must lifestream this instant" within many of us, we're finding new ways to blog on the go. I can use my iPhone to record voice memos and email them to posterous on my way to work. My Yahoo pipe then combines all of my RSS feeds and distributes them to Facebook, Google, Twitter, and FriendFeed. We haven't even talked about YouTube yet.

The question isn't, what is the future of blogging, instead it is "where" is the future of blogging. I'm thinking tags, cloud computing, and streaming feeds integrated into a single source. I'd venture to say that it is going to be very cool :)

maksym · 3 months ago

the future of blogging is the past of television