Thursday, December 14, 2006

The Rise and Fall of Blogging

From the BBC:

The blogging phenomenon is set to peak in 2007, according to technology predictions by analysts Gartner. The analysts said that during the middle of next year the number of blogs will level out at about 100 million. The firm has said that 200 million people have already stopped writing their blogs. Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer said the reason for the levelling off in blogging was due to the fact that most people who would ever start a web blog had already done so. He said those who loved blogging were committed to keeping it up, while others had become bored and moved on... "Everyone thinks they have something to say, until they're put on stage and asked to say it."
I don't think the problem is so much that people don't have that much to say, it's that there aren't really that many people who want to listen.

(Via Thegarance.com.)