Gary Goldhammer writes on his blog about 2006: Year of The Vanishing Blogger and points out that blogging will evolve from being novelty to utility. “2006 is the year when blogging moves from novelty into the “utility†phase, where the mere act of blogging is subsumed by what is being published, as well as how to find, use and participate in that information.”
Blogging will be so common that everyone will have a blog. Gary adds that as technology becomes more essential, it becomes more invisible – and when everyone is blogging, there are no more “bloggers,†just people interacting in ways they never before could have imagined. After all, someone who talks on a telephone isn’t called a “phoner,†any more than someone who communicates via a blog today will be called a “blogger†tomorrow.
With blog giants such as WeblogsInc being incorporated into AOL and Gawker Media contents being syndicated into Yahoo, their uniqueness as being an indie blog network is reduced by being part of a huge content portal such as AOL and Yahoo!
While the west is not so ecstatic with blogging for 2006 (read Jason Calacanis’ prediction for 2006), the rest of Asia are just starting to get the feel of it.
When feed-awareMSIE and Outlook are released, the masa will be consuming them without knowing.
I wonder if this novelty-to-utility experience, which applies to electricity and which will eventually apply to blogs, will also apply to feeds.
Very few people are consuming feeds. I mean, compared to those who read blogs.
Perhaps some day, when the average blogger’s number of feed subscribers reaches even 10% of their site’s daily visitors.
And I think feeds will even be more pervasive than blogs since they are “just there” without people even knowing.