Everyone’s up in a roar over nothing.
Lots of chatter about the this “plateau” in the blogosphere. C|Net was gathering comments from folks like Mark Evans and WebProNews covered it as well. Now the question is, so what?
So, it’s stalled at 15 million. You said it right, "So what!" In five years there will be 15 million experienced bloggers. You also remember that there is only so much of the population that likes to participate in any new activity unless it’s vital to success. I wouldn’t call that a stall, as the experience grows, the human nature as expressed through writing will have grown tremendously. We will be in a world communicating like one big ugly organic brain that thinks as one. How important will the newspapers be then? The blogosphere will grow and grow, and eventually, it will be the third most common way we communicate next to talking and IM.
Blogs and social media exploded onto the scene and achieved amazing growth. Lots of people jumped on the bandwagon, and more than a few have fallen off on the ride. I’m pretty sure we’ll pick them up again on our next pass. Right now we work on creating more content, more value for people (to me content is value), and improving technologies. After this breather, I think we’ll see Blogosphere 2.0 or 2.5, maybe Social Media 2 (SM2?) and that is going to be exciting.
Amen.
GeekSpeaker 
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