I don't think blogging will ever die. It's extremely personal at its core, and there will always be small communities of bloggers writing only for themselves an

I don't think blogging will ever die. It's extremely personal at its core, and there will always be small communities of bloggers writing only for themselves and the small community. (I'm a big Tumblr user, and I love having a network of about a hundred people with whom to interact. It gives me an audience and a feed of things I find interesting.) Everything becomes "professional" eventually. But that doesn't necessarily kill off the amateur audience. And on the Internet, there's a MUCH wider scope than there is on TV. News agencies were local. Even small personal blogs are technically global. It means there's more fragmentation. Things like trackbacks help with that (I wrote an article criticizing a start-up, once, and the founder found my post through that link directly), though they're ugly and not universal (Tumblr doesn't support them, for instance). I'd like a more powerful system: that might be an interesting start-up idea, actually, figuring out how to broaden the perspective of the blogosphere.