Is (macro) blogging dead?
This is one of the more common talks this year I would say, and the reason is that people find it easier to update their liveflow on microblogs. There’s a lot that we could say about this but looking at this graph from October we can see that Twitter is flattening out compared to Wordpress. 
Here’s what I think about the future for blogging:
I think that blogging will go into another phase this coming year, macroblogging will still have a strong position but will maybe start to slow down a bit. News services like Posterous (What I would like to call midiblogging) will grow, the ease of setting up an account makes it effortless for everyone to start blogging. I think we will also see some blogger totally giving up platforms like wordpress, drupal, blogger etc for this format. My own plans is to continue mactoblogging here and on my Swedish blogg. But I will use my sporring.nu (My Posterous) more this coming year.
Microblogging
This year we have seen an incredible growth on Twitter and I believe Twitter is about to reach a critical mass soon or very soon. What I hope regarding Twitter is that they will use more dedicated servers so we don’t have so much fails happening. There’s a lot of people and companies starting to rely on Twitter for their communication, so it’s better they hurry up. I don’t think there will be a new service popping up this coming year that people will turn to instead of Twitter, but in the years to come there will be new and better services coming. More and more of the communication on Twitter will also move into Facebook instead, as the conversations there is easier to keep track on. We have already seen this during the second half of this year.
Finally
Blogging will not die out, but it will evolve this coming year.
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Jon Buscall
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Rosana
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