23 março 2004

VITAMEDIAS

Is Blog Fatigue Setting In? Some webloggers have abandoned their web sites, which might seem odd given all the hype about blogging. What reasons can someone have for giving up on something that is so fashionable? [...]
“The people who are most active in the “blogosphere” seem to be freelances and garage hackers. They’re the ones who have the time and motivation to publish an on-going stream of thoughts and writing.”
“So perhaps the thesis might be that blogging is an idea whose time has not yet come. It’s adoption by a small coterie of netizens does indeed signify just the first peak of a hype curve. But in the long run, given the right social conditions, blogging could find its way to being really useful.”