In John Furrier’s post about my new position with b5media, he postulates that we’re in for another big blogosphere boom:
In my opinion this is ‘growing pains’ due to a huge surge of growth coming. I believe that the blogosphere is about to break out and grow exponentially in the next 24 months. International is the big growth area. The world is flat. That’s where it’s heading then I wonder what the A-list will look like? Source: Blognation Editors Will Survive – Tris Joins Jeremy at B5media « Furrier.org
I think John is onto something. First I see that there will be some consolidation of networks and more stand-alone blogs will become affiliated with networks. The networks have the ability to bring more traffic and better advertisers. Now what about content? Will there be a glut of opinion? This is where I’m stuck. I think that those of us who try to write and contribute new ideas and perspectives will keep doing that. Is there an opportunity for new aggregator sites? Certainly so. Techmeme does a great job, but maybe with more content out there it’s time for more niche sites. Sports, movies, gossip, pets … whatever. Once there are lots of people talking about a topic there is a need for a site to aggregate content.
What about international content? That was the motivation behind blognation and one that I think is still a need for. I so think something will come in an fill the void that bn left. Nope I actually don’t have any inside info, not that I’d speak out of school, but from all that I’ve read since bn shut down indicates that is wasn’t the idea that didn’t work, just the business part.
The question remaining is then…how will the current news A-list fare in the new paradigm?
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