Is Blogging a fad or here to stay ?
 

Is online Bloggin a fad or is it here to stay ?

Do you have one? I don't.


:)

It has been around for years already, don't think it's going away anytime soon..

Blogging in the widest sense is here to stay because essentially it's an easy way for a web newbie to get a halfway-decent looking site online. And the scripts are perfect for the surfer who just wants an online album/vanity site.

For much the same reasons they will stay strong in the mainstream too, with everyone from political pundits through hobbyists. But there is pressure for a modification of the format. A lot of people were hoping that blogs would allow the interactivity of a message board (via comments) but with direction coming from the site operator as with a static site. Blogs obviously meet the latter condition, but generally the level of interactivity they inspire has been short of expectations.

In adult, the picture blogs will prove to be a short-lived fad. Those with readable text and some real personality could last for years.

It will be around for a long time and is a great way to spread ideas and thoughts with an interactive end to it through comments. I think it is here to stay :thumbsup

Here to stay! :thumbsup

http://www.editorsweblog.org/2005/08...ng_is_gro.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4737671.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/te...rssnyt&emc=rss

Blogging is growing every second

Blogs are becoming more important. There are ever more blogs, ever more postings and most notably ever more visitors. Meanwhile blogs are gaining editorial importance. And also the advertising market is moving to blogs.

As CBS states a new report by ********** found that a new blog is created almost every second. End of July ********** was tracking 14.2 Million weblogs. 55 % of these blogs are active an 13% are updated at least weekly. David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technocrati, says on CBS: "If the numbers continue going the way that they are, you should expect to see close to 30 million blogs by March of next year and should be seeing 2 million posts a day." In the report on ********** Sisry states that also the volume of postings grew steadily: "... at the end of July 2005, there were about 900,000 posts created each day. That's about 37,500 posts every hour, or 10.4 posts per second."

And the visits to blogs seem to increase as well. According to Brandrepublic Hitwise, a online monitoring fim, found that one in every 200 web visits are to blogs. This constitutes a 130% increase over the last year. The BBC writes that "much of their appeal has been boosted because readers can subscribe to them, for free, to stay updated of any new posts automatically."

Brandrepublic states: "Bloggers are increasingly breaking stories before the mainstream media or being used to exert pressure on the mainstream media. Recently stories by bloggers led to the saking of Dilpazier Aslam" (see also former posting). The BBC points out: "Blogs have played a part in highlighting issues that journalists have not covered. They have also proved to be a valuable communication channel for journalists in repressed countries who have no other publishing means."

The advertising market is moving too. Today Yahoo started testing a system that "will let it place ads on Web site of bloggers" reports the New York Times. Google reached out to bloggers already two years ago. PaidContent states that "Yahoo's new service will differ from Google in that it will add human editorial to the selection of ads for content pages. In comparison, Google's service relies on technology."

I just read a new stat that 80,000 new blogs are popping up per day.

:helpme

Just like TGP's ..a fad which will peak and slowly start fading away.many of them resemble TGP's anyways

what % of that is on myspace alone? lol

All I know is that I have checks coming in every 2 weeks due to blogs I haven't touched in a couple months.

And it is making my mug show up everywhere
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=498982

I think they will die as soon as something else comes along!

i will work on blogs as long as i get sale from them

heh, thats a fair point kuthi.

It isn't "Blogging" so much that makes for great SEO and rankings, but a few key aspects that blogging allows to be done easily. So while "blogging" may endure or not, the key elements WILL be beneficial for a long long time. If applied to ANYTHING ELSE, you would find the same results and benefits. Tested, and true.

Of course it is a fad.

However, take nothing away from its monetary potential.

Blogs have been around as long as the Internet. Is the Internet a fad as well?

Just because this is one thing that adult did not create doesn't mean it is a fad. :2 cents:

Blogs have been around if you consider text / online diaries have been around.

The idea of the blog is a fad. I promise you that the term "blog" will be a thing of the past in one year. However, the concept itself will always be lucrative and enticing. But CNN will not always have the blog news cut they now offfer on TV.

Baddog, I am not condemning it. I am set up to offer free hosted blogs :)

And I will be prepared to offer free hosted werbbers if that is what they are called next.

The term blog, or weblog what it really means, was invented in 1997.

http://www.robotwisdom.com/log1997m12.html

The page looks extremely like a blog to me...

And this is here to stay, its not a fad, its been around for 8 years and will be around for another 20. Its just become "known" and more and more people are using it... The point here is not "oh I can make lotsa money with this by posting porn pics on it"... thats just a misuse of a blog to be honest...

Blogs might die away in the adult area, but they will remain forever online. Way too many tech blogs out there for them to die away. Its just a news site really, just made by a private person, why should that go away?

Nothing is here to stay. It's all a matter of time :upsidedow

Exactly. Google (& co) got an algorithm :upsidedow

I really think blogs are here to stay, considering the huge amount of blogs coming out everyday.

1 new blog every 2 seconds is the latest statistic. Quality is going down by the minute. Blogs will eventually be replaced by a new fad. Still tons of money to be made and great things to read about every day - but nothing lasts forever. At some point everyone will be PUBLISHING, and who will be the audience if we all spend our time updating our own shit? :1orglaugh

Lars blogs may be a fad but RSS is here to stay. Want to hire me for a weekend to show you why? hahah

just like anything else if it's done with quality and thought then it can last a long time, if it's shitty and not well thought out it dies off pretty quickly.

blogs aren't a fad, starting one might be a fad, but blogs themselves are not, just like websites aren't a fad and neither are tgp's or whatever else.

i don't think it is a fad.. it has been around for quite sometime now and it has continued to be patronized.

great feedback thanks

Blogs aren't "unique". It's like a goddamn categorized forum board with RSS feeds (which SMF supports now anyways). Eventually something will replace it. Most people use them because they can't even setup forum software (extracting a zip, uploading files, and running a script is difficult!).

Blogs make money, plain and simple. You just have to do it right. That's why it's never gonna go out of style. Next big trend--video blogs.

definatly. it hit mainstream which means its most likley here to stay.
i saw Carson Daily on his show calling up people explaining to them what a blog is. heh

I need to start a blog about dumb things that people predict.

Will eventually fade a little...
It's difficult to upkeep a blog imo

i just hope they die again fast

When Google started returning blog entries in its NEWS search, I knew it was a big thing.

Yah, i remember it since 98/99 at least. Back then they were called e/n sites.

we will be here to check it out.

Blogging is going to die out just like TGP2 :winkwink:

It depends -- do you mean real blogs or these fake blogs that are nothing more than a TGP?

Check my blogs list, most are nothing but a page with pictures and links to galleries, with spam on the side.

Blogs are the new TGP and people are making good sales with them. Few if any redirect like a real TGP, there are no popups or spyware (since most are hosted by Blogspot or Blogger), and due to the lack of material, the pages load slowly.

I was hearing the term "blog" thrown around almost a decade ago so I guess you could say it's already stuck around. If the mainstream media has caught on to a term (I think they started blabbing about this "new" concept called blogs a few years ago) then you know it's been around a LONG time already.

Of course, there are now script that make it easier to build blogs, but online diaries have been around in one for or another since the web was born.

I agree with this one :)

Just like TGPs, noobs will run blogs into the ground.

Can you say "bump?" :1orglaugh

but you are right. I had people telling me to do this 6-7 years ago. I just didn't see it.

Blogs still have plenty of room to run.

cant answer here , read it in my blog :1orglaugh

i have been blogging since 1998, since i registered my first blog domain. i wouldnt call it a fad.

It's here to stay because it's always been here. Before it was just called a journal, diary, or log.

The hype around blogging being the coolest thing on the web is a fad.

I'm sure it will always be a cash crop for those that have SEO skills.

Blogs are here to stay. Since they index well in the search engine, the traffic will always flow, so there will be always people trying to get traffic this way ! :thumbsup

it gives all the unimportant suckers in the world a platform to share their dull life with the whole intarweb. and because there are millions of unimportant suckers on this globe, numbers increasing daily, blogging will most definitely stay forever.

it all depends on what you call a blog... :)

installing wp, posting 5 items and adding tons of ads, forgetting all about it = blogging?
spamming blogger.com = blogging?
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90% of all blogs out there aren't "blogs"...

:food-smil .