I've been contemplating recent blog-blather (someone wrote it and it didn't seem important enough to flag) that has fluttered around in the back of my mind ....

RE: blogging will "die out" in a couple of years.  Rationale:  people will grow tired of writing for/to themselves and surfing will find new venues.  Makes me wonder ....

Our actual contributor list here has dwindled (though their names remain because we continue to meet for poker a couple of nights a week) ... three of us do the bulk of sporadic writing on this site while our associates are experimenting with their own.  Makes sense!

I've noticed that the more popular/successful blog sites become, the less owners actually blog!  Rather than expound on topics, they link to other expounders.  It's more like they are preening their replacements ....

I read fewer and fewer blogs.  I'm down to approx. 10 that I read daily via Bloglines.  I seldom comment on other blogs.  Most comments sections turn into free-for-all's in which the blogger's thesis is used as a springboard for one-up-manship ... Maybe it is meant to be this way.  It may, however, be "infiltrated" to discourage serious commenters from posting. 

Is this a sign of the times?  Will blogging decline?  Will MSM reclaim control of the world as THEY want us to view it?

I hope not.

--Rhet