Will Blogging Be Big?

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Will Blogging Be Big?

I was talking to Greg Lindsay today, who used to write for Inside.com – which, sadly, was one of my less successful investments.

He is working on a story for a business magazine which will go unnamed that asks the question that everyone seems to be asking these days - will blogging be big? Of course, I told him, its going to be big. It already is big in terms of audience although nobody in the traditional media wants to admit it.

But Greg, like everyone else, seems to be focused on Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis. I told him that Nick and Jason are smart and doing good stuff, but he should look somewhere other than Gawker and Weblogs Inc if he really wants to see the future of blogging.

I pointed him to Technorati, Kinja, Feedburner, BlogAds, and a host of other interesting developments. I think the Internet is often a big head-fake. It’s not the obvious business model that often generates the most value. It’s the company that figures out to get inside of this beautiful open system and expose hidden value that often wins the biggest.

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On the money, 100%

Posted by: J | Apr 20, 2004 11:58:40 PM

Fred, I agree - frankly, been blogging now for two years - my personal blog is my 4th - and what as amazed me is the software behind the blogs. Imagine if we'd had this combination of price, effeciency, and distribution back in the @NY days!

Posted by: Tom Watson | Apr 21, 2004 9:00:20 AM

"Oooh! Google is hot right now! Let's build a Google Blog! Ooh! Social software is hot right now! Let's build a social software blog!"

This all comes from a "high-concept", counterintuitive place, unlike say, Janegalt.net or Boing Boing. But high concepts are easier for journos to understand, hence their relative ease in grabbing column inches.

Eh. If Henry Ford just gave people what they asked for, he would've just given them faster horses.

Beware the "faster horses" busines model.

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