The future of blogging

Last week, we had a small discussion on the future of blogging. Some people believe that blogs will be more and more niched. That's actually an important observation typically articulating the trend following the long-tail phenomena. Studies of the topology of hyperlink structures of blogs also show a power-law distribution, i.e. approximately 20% of all blogs are heavily linked with each other but the rest 80% of the blogs have few links into them and represent all the niches forming the long-tail.

Enough said about the distribution of blogs, how about the blogging behaviour. Just as many other buzzwords, the definition of blogging has become more diffuse. However, I think that we all agree that the main purpose of blogging is to share information with other people on what we do, think, eat, dream, and so on. Today, I found that there are plenty of ways of doing that beyond writing this post here on blogger. I can do microblogging through Jaiku, status update through all social community networks, upload a video on youtube, share what I read as favourites through netvibes, and almost everything I share could be published/syndicated through friendfeeds aggregating all my acitivities (you can find mine here, feel free to add me)... In my opinion, all of this kind of microblogging using syndication will take over the "traditional way" of blogging.

Having that said, why am I still writing this stupid blog post that probably no one will read? Well... its a good place for myself to document my thoughts :-)