Blogging Peaks in 2007?
CBC's website is quoting a study from Gartner Inc. that the number of blogs world wide will peak and level off in 2007.
After a constant barrage of Technorati statistics for the past several years showing an ever increasing number of blogs, Gartner simply says that the number of people who want to try blogs are soon going to have done so, and others will move on to something else.
This week I also read somewhere (sorry for the lack of linkage) that the number of downloads from the iTunes music store are dramatically falling as well.
Signs of changing patterns of online behaviour?
What's coming up next?
technorati tags:cbc, blogging, gartner, technorati, itunes, change
Here's a link to CNET's article about iTunes: http://news.com.com/Gloomy+iTunes+predictions+premature/2100-1027_3-6143555.html
Posted by: Jim Dornberg | Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 01:57 PM
Thanks very much!
Posted by: Clarence Fisher | Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 02:03 PM
Not to be too flippant here, but I know a whole lot of teachers who still aren't sure what blogs really are, so I can't imagine that we're anywhere near the assurance of this statement: "the number of people who want to try blogs are soon going to have done so." Of the teachers who don't really know, I can imagine nearly half of them becoming interested soon after they figure out the blog's potential as a learning tool. Not to mention the fact that humanity keeps making more humans with brains, fingers, and itchy ideas to spread to others.
But maybe I'm wrong.
Posted by: Eric Hoefler | Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 04:47 PM