Nov 09 2006
Is this whole blog thing getting silly?
From today’s Daily Show mid-term coverage:
And here we have: A blogger being interviewed about blogging, while watching herself being interviewed about blogging. I wonder if she’ll blog about that?
Which illustrates an interesting point: Are we blogthusiasts merely part of a bubble that’s becoming dangerously over-inflated?
Will history in the web3.0 era conclude that the pioneers of web2.0 were, in fact, little more than a ridiculous, self-obsessed self-parody?
Does anyone read blogs, apart from other bloggers?
No, I don’t think it’s that bad. But I do think an occasional reality check is probably a good thing.
More and more unlikely people than you’d imagine. Two out of date resources I was able to lay hands on quickly:
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/3656.asp
http://www.comscore.com/blogreport/comScoreBlogReport.pdf