Maybe we’ll see the “bubble” burst and things such as whose blog and which niches survive will balance and level out. Could that be more beneficial for surviving bloggers that use their blogs as billboards for advertisers?

Prime advertising real estate if they survive due to readers weeding out their blog readers and sticking only with those such as you, Darren, that have the personality, skill, and expertise to hold the attention of readers. ;-)

My question: Which market are we headed into? A sellers or a buyers market?

I do think, though, that reading all the blogs on the same topics and the blogs on blogging are getting really old. Please stop. =)

…I think blogs will always be around. We’ve always had information based websites, and blogging and content management systems help us deliver that info efficiently.

Anyway, blogs are a thing of the past… That’s the most stupid crap I’ve ever heard.

Thanks,

Jason

I love your work. It’s always top informative.

Can you Tell us who are those new blogs that you talk about?
“” … One of the interesting things that I’ve observed lately is that the blogging about blogging space (and the ‘blogging for money’ space) has definitely become more cluttered. It seems that many bloggers go through a stage of being fascinated with the topic. Most watch each other and like in any niche their ideas and posts will bounce off each other also … “”

It would be interesting to have a list of them, you see I would like to read them also, and you seem to have a list of them.

Thank you for your help.
Keep on the good work.
Greetings from FRANCE.

Yes, the blogs about blogging are repetitive.

I read an article in THE ECONOMIST, or some other equivalent news source, that said blogging was going to peak in 2007. 2007 was going to have the most blogs of all time. It has caught on and everyone wants one.

But, poor readership and lack of persistence should take hold in 2008 and the number of blogs should start to dwindle-the best and most persistent will continue to press on, but there should be a number of them that will die off.

Persistence is one of the keys that must be persistently in your mindset when it comes to blogging.

I think people forget the true essence of a blog and a blogger. Voice. Yes, there could be a million blogs about mommies or about blogging for money, but do you enjoy and relate to all million bloggers of these niches. This is the beauty of blogs-bloggers aren’t guided by the needs of advertisers (hopefully). If you write with a unique, people will read.

I don’t know if search engines are able to index videos that well yet without text, whether sites can load them very quickly, easy editing software reaches the masses, etc., but once everything gets streamlined, the best video bloggers will rise to the top, perhaps overtaking us text-only fuddy-duddys.

Why just read an article about blogging (or any other how-to topic) when you can watch a great video tutorial about it as well and/or instead?

Just my cents, not adjusted for inflation.

It’s really about differentiating yourself from the rest and blogging because you LOVE blogging and not for the money. Don’t be afraid to start a niched blog on your hobby because that IS the trend to go.

Forget blogging about blogging, unless you actually like doing it….Darren has cornered the market all to himself :))