Gartner Predicts the Blogosphere's Future
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A set of blogging predictions from Gartner, a research firm that tracks all things technological, is making waves inside and outside the blogosphere. In its latest report, Gartner predicted that blogging -- the most loved, feared, and hyped Web trend since the emergence of e-mail -- will level off in 2007, leaving its startling growth rates behind.
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Robert Cox wants to bring some professionalism to the blogosphere.
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In a comment yesterday on Marc Canter's blog, discussing the race to be the default identity system for the Internet.. "I wouldn&#185;t count out Google, they've got a lot of users, and a lot of money. I think they could probably buy Yahoo, but someone else would have to do the math." Ashkan Karbasfrooshan did the math.
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Interesting data  this morning (thanks Dan ) on weblogs:  "Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is"  Read the PDF  for more stats (man I hate PDF).  "27% of internet users say they read blogs, a 58% jump from the 17% who told us they were blog readers in February. This means that by the end of 2004 32 million Americans were blog readers. Much of the attention to blogs focused on those that covered the recent political campaign and the media. And at least some of the overall growth in blog readership is attributable to political blogs. Some 9% of internet users ...
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The Web 2.0 conference is under way in San Francisco, so the B.S. will be flying. Thanks to the innovators in Wired's Gadget Lab, you can contribute to the dung heap by using our Web 2.0 Summit startup and press kit to tout your own flim-flam company.
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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MarketWatch is sold for $500 million and Slate is next. Will there be a spate of other sites on the block? Probably, but the most fevered M & #038;A activity will be among blogs. Commentary by Adam L. Penenberg.
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Technology research firm Gartner will purchase rival Meta Group for about $162 million. The firms have complementary business strategies, and both are headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
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There are few business predictions I'd make with cast-iron guarantees, but this one qualifies: The amount of information and content bouncing around the Internet will grow dramatically in the future.
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Analyst Gartner is predicting radical change will occur as organisations realise that IT must act as a key driver for business change.
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Can small variations in the UK news search engine market produce large variations in the long-term behavior of the worldwide search engine market?
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The blogosphere pretty much predicted everything Apple announced yesterday. Is the company losing its touch?
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Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion stumbled across Technorati WTF (currently down), which lists the most popular blog stories of the day in a Digg or Techmeme type hieracral system.  It&#8217;s nice to see more niche search engines using the Digg model for gauging popularity via user voting, and this form of social media is slowly growing [...]
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For nearly a year I've lived in that relatively new zone called the blogosphere.  I'm now considering moving.  Like many people, I've entertained the idea over the years of writing a book or two; but for now I just enjoy writing an occasional column or story.
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Decision: Blogs vs. New York Times. For the last couple of weeks I've been emailing with people from the LongNow Foundation and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times, to determine who won the bet.  Ultimately we asked the foundation to consider all the argument and make the decision. They published their decision today. It's well worth reading because it answers some of the questions raised by the bet, for example, what is a blog, and how does Wikipedia relate to blogging. I don't agree with everything in the decision, but I do like the result -- we won.  The beneficiary of the bet? The World Wide Web Consortium. I chose them as the charity to receive the proceeds if I won the bet because web standards are what make it all work and the W3C is central to standards on the web.
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AOL presents its own take on blogging the news.
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An environment blog at The Wall Street Journal?.