Blogs are the (not so) new big thing, we all know that. Print media is having a hard time battling the internet in the first place, but add to that professional blogs with their fluid content flow and you have a real suckerpunch to the media establishment.
They are the fanzines (turned pro) of today, only faster and more easily distributed. Blogs are business ventures and success stories. Failures and money down the drain. Occasionally, blogs are even personal journals that interest no one but the closest group of family and friends, although this type of blogs might be the most common one, but also the least interesting in a wider sense.
Being in this business is exciting and exhausting. The ones who make it, they make it big. The ones who doesn’t, well, some of them manage to sneak off without losing to much face.
What will happen? Will it crash (and will Arrington buy all the good stuff) in dotcom style? Will major blog networks become traditional publishing companies and go print?
I don’t know. It just struck me as big, bold and beautiful, this whole blogging thing and what it’s doing to the infoscapeworldcom we’re living in. Thoughts that make much more sense in the middle of the night, after tuning upcoming projects, I assure you.