Hello? Is This Thing On?

As everyone and their goldfish knows, the blogosphere has grown (and continues to grow) at an enormous rate. But will it last? B.L. Ochman thinks not. Dave Sifry says maybe. The number of un-maintained blogs will grow, of course, just as did the number of websites that went neglected in the late-90s. I'm not so sure whats going to happen. I feel that the determining factor lies in aggregation and content acquesition. If blogs go unread, untended, and remain obscure, they will corrode. But, if people find value in them—any semblance of a readership—the value will remain and blogs (or whatever the hell you want to call them) will remain.

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