Comments on: News Flash – Blogging Won’t be a Job by 2016!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:05:18 +0000

Two years have gone by and we bloggers are still alive.

FastCompany.com, by the way, only has an Alexa ranking of around 2.5 million. I bet some of the people who commented above make more than that magazine grosses in a year! :)

By: Slarkyy

Slarkyy — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:27:13 +0000

Blogs have been around forever, just in the form of “editorials” in newspapers and magazines. They will be here forever.

By: Conspiracy Bob

Conspiracy Bob — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:54:02 +0000

Podcasting will get bigger. Wait until cell phones get more sophisticated (maybe when Google goes into cell phones). They will download podcasts that you can listen to in your car or while riding the bus. Maybe even your car stereo will be online. Always connected… Always bombarded with advertising… Someone will be making money from it. The Internet will get even bigger. This is just the beginning.

By: Kristine

Kristine — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:14:15 +0000

I hope not since my husband just got me interested in this! He also recommened your site as basically a textbook of information in learning how to effectively do this blogging thing. You certainly have great tips! Thank you!

By: A.H

A.H — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:00:01 +0000

Peter: If you friend hates blogs so much why did he decide to express it by opening a blog? and why didn’t he even bother to write a shot paragraph about his intentions and causes?.

“proud to be a wordpress 2.0.1 site”

hilarious…
A.H

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:26:52 +0000

My friend owns http://www.death2blogs.com and the point being that many commercial blogs are hurting some the blogging and also there are now so many blogs that do not get comments on them due to the sheer number of blogs out there it has hurt the blogging community.

There are also a lot of blogs getting a huge amount of comments, but the numbers do not look good.

By: Singaporebeauty

Singaporebeauty — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:08:29 +0000

If blogging is to end then it must be ‘something’ that is killing blogging. That ‘something’ must be something that earns more money. It is likely that bloggers will migrate to that new ‘something’. Online money making will never die as long as there is internet.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:26:40 +0000

Michael: I’d disagree. It certainly hasn’t panned that way with radio vs. books. Very few people listen to spoken word radio compared to the amount who read books. I can’t see a time when audio distribution online becomes any more popular than text distribution. Reading is significantly better than listening, in the main. You don’t have to put up with odd accents, slow delivery, and the inability to ‘scan’. Podcasting works for certain types of content, but it’s definitely not going to be a replacement for the majority of online textual content.

By: Michael Rew

Michael Rew — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:52:25 +0000

As bandwidth and podcasting increase, text blogging will decrease. Text blogging, like bookstores and libraries, will continue to have a place. But why read when you can listen? And there are plenty of people who will not take the time to write who can talk your ear off on the telephone. Problogging may be the job of the present, but propodcasting is the job of the future. Text ads can be replaced with audio ads placed at intervals the podcaster determines. Google may release a heatmap for the ear. Placing at the beginning and in the middle of a podcast might be the hot regions, while at the end would be the coldest region.

By: chase

chase — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 03:36:25 +0000

I think it is better if it remains a personal hobby thing instead of a job anyways

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 02:34:45 +0000

Even though it’s not my job right now, I wouldn’t mind the prospect of 10 more years of good income from writing my thoughts a couple times a day. Yes I know blogging is more than that.

Even a few good years of income could lead to a lot more. Who knows what will be the next “blogging.” The internet will still be around and bloggers will have a huge advantage jumping into the next big thing, so don’t be discouraged. Just think of it as a career change in the future leading to more money.

By: Conspiracy Bob

Conspiracy Bob — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:08:36 +0000

Blogs will exist as long as there is a Web that is accessible for anyone to publish to.

By: Shaun Carter

Shaun Carter — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:52:56 +0000

While I don’t even earn a living now as a blogger, I think this statement from Fast Company is way off base. I think of blogging as being similar in nature to listening to your favorite radio personality or watching your favorite newscaster on television.

There will always be opportunities to make money from your content if you have a large enough audience. That will never change.

By: Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:42:07 +0000

That’s because this ‘industry’ isn’t really ‘blogging’, as such.. that’s just a term for the current phase of… content publishing. There’s going to be money in content publishing forever (or pretty close to it) whatever moniker it takes on as the years go by. Writing your blogs is, at an industrial level, no different to publishing a newspaper in the 1800s. The technology changes, the revenue model changes, but at the end of the day you’re still making money from producing words that people read.

By: Nick Aziz

Nick Aziz — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:42:12 +0000

Things evolve. They don’t die or disappear.

I will say this, however. Blogs existed 10 years ago, and they weren’t nearly as different from today’s blogs as some people think. Sure, there was no AJAX and WordPress, but the basic idea was the same, and the format was quite similar. I expect the same sort of evolution over the next 10 years as well.

Do these people really think people will just forget about a news source like Engadget? Of course not. Will the Internet die off? LOL! So how exactly will blogs die out?

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:08:15 +0000

Blogs will continue to evolve as will the internet. Whether or not they are still called blogs in 2016 is up for debate. They probably won’t be. But hopefully the internet will still be a place where anybody can speak there mind. As long as it is, there will be money flowing and people making a living off of it.

I was kind of surprised at how shallow and badly written the little article was. They bust on bloggers for making snarky comments, but the article is little more than an example of a bad, snarky blog post.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:53:38 +0000

Every few months an idiot has to spout off something like this. Man will never be able to fly. He will never reach the moon. Cable TV is just a fad. Need we say any more.

By: Ma2T

Ma2T — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:47:00 +0000

What a load of crap, lol, rather worrying title, but I don’t believe it.

I agree with what you say Darren, the internet will of course exist, and people (even more people by then) will be looking for information, entertainment etc, that will never end…… blogs will evolve, maybe more wiki style or something, but the internet and “web sites” no matter how they are run / powered will still be there. We are bloggers yes, but that bloggers fall under the “webmaster” or “webdeveloper” categroy, and that will for sure still be around.

bloggers village somewhere in the Bahamas sounds great though lol.

Having looking at that webpage, what a joke,… Humz, it is April 1st (Fools Day), I think they are the fools, lol.

By: AndyC

AndyC — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:26:57 +0000

In 2016 there might not be bloggs any more. Or, at least, not the way that we know them now. But there will be something else to the same spirit. If blogging for money will still exist by that time…well, good writing and quality always brought money, so…my guess is that those guys are wrong! So wrong!

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:14:55 +0000

Uhm……

I hope that didn’t happen because I’m a psychic, but rather because of some strange Summer Time issue.

I would really hate to be a psychic.