“The Blogosphere has added spice to our democracy, making it more appetizing to more people.”
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“The future of blogs will have arrived when you check your favorite blog for sports news in the morning, instead of your local paper.” Read the rest of this entry »
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“The word blog is irrelevant, what’s important is that it is now common, and will soon be expected, that every intelligent person (and quite a few unintelligent ones) will have a media platform where they share what they care about with the world.” Read the rest of this entry »
Wondering what blog industry think tanks and top bloggers believe their future will be? Read on…
Brad Feld
“In 2004 when Technorati started, the typical reaction to the word ‘blog’ was ‘huh - can you repeat yourself?’ Today, blogs are everywhere —even presidential candidates have blogs. The blog has forever changed the way publishing works —now anyone can be a publisher. The issue is no longer distribution; rather, it’s relevance.” |
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Chris PirilloInternet Content Producer (Since 1992)
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“The idea of blogging will never disappear, but the process by content is created for one blog or a series of blogs will continue to undergo radical upheavals. This past year, we saw the introduction of countless “microblogging” platforms, to the point where they (themselves) have become a commodity —further pushing individual voices to the Blogosphere’s melting pot. Brand will continue to decentralize, and micro-communities will form within any one of the loosely-structured services (like FriendFeed, which values the continuation of conversation as much as it does the initiation portion).” Read the rest of this entry »
As the above demo shows, we will now be able to hit two birds with one stone. Logging on twice to Google’s blogging cornerstones is a thing of the past. You’ll now be able to find out exactly which pages generate what income at what time from what referrer. Tracking your users through your blog has never been so easy allowing us bloggers improved financial gain. Invites will be out soon it is now being gradually rolled out.
Will we now see only money making content on blogs with all else suffering economic cut backs? Well no. Luckily economics shows us one product swamping the market will drive down it’s monetary value allowing other niche topics back in the game. The diverse blogosphere will continue to evolve even under Google’s analytic/adsense microscope.
Happy 5th Birthday to WordPress and cheers to Automattic! Thank you for providing a stable evolving flexible blogging platform for the entire world to use!
(B-Day Tuesday, 27th May 2008)
Check out the stats from Nielsen Online:
Trailing in their dust come 6- Xanga 7- Thatsfit 8- Gizmodo 9- Autoblog 10- StyleDash 
C’mon WP fans! (Do you think it’s the scraper blogs fobbing the stats?) Comment below..
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