The Mark Dykeman Web Niche

Will the size of the blogosphere continue to grow exponentially, will it slow down, or will it be replaced by something else?

This post from Read/Write Web, an article on the current state of blogging that was inspired by Alex Iskold’s reaction to the recent Blog World Expo in Las Vegas, attempts to address this question.  The Expo was attended by over 1,500 bloggers from around the world, which seems quite amazing to me.  On the other hand, the author writes that Technorati has indexed close to 35,000,000 blogs. Good Lord, that’s a blog for every human being in Canada, plus a bunch of the animals! Maybe there’s an underground moose blog movement that no one’s talking about. I don’t know. Maybe the salmon have got burrs up their butts in addition to fishhooks in their mouths. Maybe it’s the beavers…. (more…)