David Sifry’s “State of the Live Web aka Blogosphere”” is required reading for us bloggy types. I wonder if we should have betting pools on the rate of blog growth and other metrics just to make things more interesting.
Regardless the report is out, yes I know it was Thursday, but I was busy, and I was giving it a good read while T and I watch Pirates of the Caribbean (again) and looking for that vaunted “hook” to write about.
It came to me. It’s been brewing in my head for a while, and I’ve probably alluded to it several times this week in “normal” conversation: blogs are information sources, period.
When I talk about blogs to your average Internet acquainted user most folks say “Aren’t those just those online journals…”, which one could mean that blogs are still “out there” to most or …
Maybe blogs have reached some kind of stealth point where they have just become accepted information sources that maybe the moniker of “live web” is more fitting.
But if that’s so, then why are blogs considered “journals” by the mainstream? Media? I can’t count how many times I see teen blogs on TV shows … of course they all look like MySpace.
Again we’re left with the issue of the moniker “blog”. The difference between a teen’s MySpace page and this one is in the content and intent. Have we reached a turning point? The blogosphere’s explosive growth is slowing (no surprise there), but the popularity of the medium hasn’t slowed. I think this year we’re just going to start referring to business blogs as …. hmm websites?
I guess we’ll have to see.
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