This is interesting – and amusing. It’s short, so read the whole thing, not just my excerpt!<\/p>\n
The Death of Blogs | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n A<\/strong>s weblogs proliferated earlier this decade, Andy Warhol’s famous aphorism was modified to read, "In the future, everyone will be famous to 15 people.<\/a>" Now it looks like Warhol was right after all: Thanks to widespread blog burnout, everyone will be famous to 15 people for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n Tech researcher Gartner Inc. reported earlier this year that 200 million people<\/a> have given up blogging, more than twice as many as are active.<\/p>\n "A lot of people have been in and out of this thing," Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer told<\/a> reporters<\/a>. "Everyone thinks they have something to say, until they’re put on stage and asked to say it." Given the average lifespan of a blogger and the current growth rate of blogs, Gartner says blogging has probably peaked.<\/p>\n Which isn’t to say that blogging is dead. Quite the opposite. Blog aggregator Technorati<\/em><\/a> estimates<\/a> that 3 million new blogs<\/a> are launched every month. The site’s tongue-in-cheek slogan: "Zillions of photos, videos, blogs, and more. Some of them have to be good."<\/p>\n >>>>>>>>>><\/p>\n The secret of some of the top God blogs is that they’re team efforts. But many bloggers still feel like they have to have their own site to be "contributing to the conversation." The blogosphere, which was supposed to be a great democratizer, has made us all perennial candidates, demanding that we weigh in on every news item, no matter how mundane or overexposed. (The blog world risks becoming one giant midrash<\/em> on The New York Times<\/em> front page.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is interesting – and amusing. It’s short, so read the whole thing, not just my excerpt! The Death of Blogs | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction As weblogs proliferated earlier this decade, Andy Warhol’s famous aphorism was modified to read, "In the future, everyone will be famous to 15 people." Now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9389,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4077\/revisions\/9389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n