I didn’t like being alone with just us geeks anyway!

Thanks for sharing other people’s experiences and trends, Duncan …

Seriously though, what would people rather read about, living or living with technology? Now that the internet is a mainstream medium, living will clearly consume more bandwidth.

Secondly, I’d like kick off the body with a quote from Vivek: “Well may be geek blogs are dying. But who cares?”

You’re all so biased on this issue that you don’t appreciate the opinions of the very people you’re categorizing. It’s not just about the, “blogosphere,” or bloggers (of the geek variety or otherwise.) That’s all contrived nonsense anyway. The, “blogosphere,” is the same BS it was 6, or 8, or however many years ago that you’d like to track back. And that’s my point; it’s not the blogs that are the issue. It’s the overwelming quantity of mass media that’s sweeping the internet that’s the problem, and it’s disgusting. Instead of the tightly knit communities there once was, the internet has degenerated at best into a backwoods soap box screaming contest for everyone and their mom to stand upon and be heard, and at worst an advertising construct for all the big consumer business we had hoped to avoid when we andvetured into (or retreated to, if you’d like) those aforementioned communities in the first place. In other words, now it’s just like the real world! (If I wanted that, I’d have gone outside some time during the last 2 decades.)

The decline of the so called geek bloggers is just another symptom and another reminder that a lower class of society is arriving en masse to displace more traditional netizens. So come on everyone, jump on the bandwagon! HUUR HURR. It’s only a matter of time until your mom is blogging professionally for the local Winn-Dixie. (I’m sure that’ll be a step up from cleaning the rest rooms.) After all, now that everyone else is on the intarwebs too, wouldn’t it just be easiest to VOTE on which bread we’ll be baking tomorrow?

In conclusion I’d like to answer your question, Vivek, regardless of weather it was rhetorical or not. WE DO.

But you’re using the same infrastructure, Robert, and that binds the blogging community together with the same interests. There are hundreds of B/spheres, as you say, but they are verticals, like language and topic, which many people transcend, not least in meta terms. To understand the whole picture of this phenomenon, and its relation to mainstream media, you need a map. Duncan’s chronological map works, insofar as any map works. My own horizontal division by motivation into primary (chatters), secondary (moneymakers) and Tertiary (influence, cachet) also works on another coordinate. Taken together they define the essence of what blogging is. Of course, if you don’t care about “blogging” as such, it doesn’t much matter at all.

I believe that they still something to say, and as a geek, i’d rather read Dave’s musing on his travels and his projects than well frankly your blog on blogs, after all being a geek i’m not going to learn much of anything from you, where as Dave and Doc, and to a certain extent Scoble have things to say that i’d be interested in…

Regards

Stewart

Personally I think the Technorati list is bunk. I’ll write more about that tonight.

Someone could say “The mainstream media doesn’t exist, because the Podunk Gazette/print has little in common with CBS News/ TV.

There are local hierarchies as well as global hierachies.

So the point here is that “geek blogging” is diminishing its relative share globally, as the overall system grows, with more hierachies. But, note, it remains a local hierarchy. So it is not dying, but rather becoming of lesser share in total.

Whether or not this matters to someone depends very much on what hierarchy they care about.

If there is no one “blogosphere” then what is Technorati doing with a top 100 list?

What goes up must come down. Buh bye.

Why not?

Google.

Let’s try this again. If you search for, say, “Microsoft Blogger” are you likely to find me or are you likely to find someone writing about Britney Spears?

Here’s a clue: I’m not competing against folks who write about Britney Spears or Quilting. It makes for a nice story when you say I am, but that doesn’t make it any more true.

By the way, in the past two years I’ve moved from #74 to #29 on the Technorati top 100 list, even as more than 10 million blogs have opened up.

If this were a competition seems like I’m doing pretty well so far.