› The Future of Blogging
Some experts predict that the practice of blogging will peak in 2007, then level off when the number of bloggers who actually maintain a personal website reaches around 100 million. This prediction is predicated on the idea that the novelty of blogging will begin to fade once the majority of the curious have explored most of the medium’s possibilities, with new bloggers offsetting those writers who abandon their blogs for whatever reason.
Some estimate that there are over 200 million former bloggers who have ceased posting to their online diaries, creating an exponential rise in the amount of unwanted objects on the Web.
The predictions, however, perhaps underestimate the innovations that crop up in new media. Bloggers blogging make money through advertising. Woman bloggers are on the rise. Media bloggers ad a certain Hollywood cache to the blogosphere, and professional bloggers are replacing mainstream news agencies for many. Sites like TextMyProfile.com allow free SMS text services from computer to cell-phones via blog home pages.