The Blog Herald have just predicted their Predictions for blogging in 2005 which make interesting reading (although the first three they admit they’ve been predicting for a couple of years now).
Anyway – some of the predictions are quite relevant for those wanting to make money from blogging so they are relevant to problogger – particularly predictions 5,6 and 7.
5. Blog advertising will boom – YEAH bring it on!
6. The better blogs will be purchased – I agree – we’ve talked about this a few times at How much is your blog worth and Blog Farming
7. Other will pool their resources - ie we’ll see more networks for bloggers emerge to compete with those like Weblogs Inc. Again I agree and have seen a few examples of this recently. They’ve got some catching up to do though!
Read the rest of the list at The Blog Herald Predictions for 2005
About Darren Rowse
My name is Darren Rowse and I’m a full time Blogger making a living from blogs like 
I dont think blog farming will catch on. There are people out there selling all sorts of sites (especially those turnkey sites) and i think selling a niche blog would just be treated as an online magazine/articles site. I doubt anything major would come of it.