Friday, April 27, 2007

Another bubble bursts: blogs

I recently joined Facebook, and my blog has suffered for it. Now I read this from CNET:
"A new article in BusinessWeek says the numbers are pointing to a plateau in active blogs. The magazine is using stats from Technorati for the analysis, which found a decline in the percentage of blogs that are active compared to the total number of blogs tracked by Technorati.

It's a familiar pattern--millions of people got excited by blogging and set up pages of their own. But after a while, they grew tired of maintaining them--or moved on to newer social phenomena like MySpace or Twitter--and let their blogs go silent."

Hmm ... thoughts?

2 comments:

Amy said...

Yes I come across inactive and fading blogs. Must be escapees to Facebook! My young friends are on Facebook lots. It's interactive, fast, and a borderless playground with new ideas like Friend Visualizer... only read about it, not that I've used it! But I hope blogs will thrive with lots of new tools and possibilities and stay cool. They can't be fossils before their time!!

Tyson said...

Facebook is pretty cool, I think, especially as it helps me with the student group ministry. I've also had some childhood friends contact me via Facebook.