Blog wave rolls back this year
There are millions of blogs on the Internet covering every conceivable topic, the blogger community is growing rapidly and successful blogs have changed hands for millions. Now the technology analysts at the US consulting firm Gartner are predicting the end of the blogging trend for mid-2007.
There are millions of blogs on the Internet covering every conceivable topic, the blogger community is growing rapidly and successful blogs have changed hands for millions. Now the technology analysts at the US consulting firm Gartner are predicting the end of the blogging trend for mid-2007.
At the very least, growth rates should come to a standstill at a high level, as was reported in the Tages-Anzeiger. According to the Gartner analysts, the number of blogs will level off at an estimated 100 million pages. Gartner came to this conclusion because 200 million people have already discontinued their blogs. Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer sees the reason for the large number of orphaned blogs in the overconfidence of many: "Everyone thinks they have something to say - until you get people on stage and ask them to actually say something." Moreover, according to Plummer, most people who wanted to start a blog had already put this idea into practice. There is therefore a lack of newcomers for the growth rates to date. At the moment, however, there is not much sign of a decline in blogs. According to the company Technorati, which indexes blogs, around 100,000 new blogs and 1.3 million blog entries are still being created every day.
At the very least, growth rates should come to a standstill at a high level, as was reported in the Tages-Anzeiger. According to the Gartner analysts, the number of blogs will level off at an estimated 100 million pages. Gartner came to this conclusion because 200 million people have already discontinued their blogs. Gartner analyst Daryl Plummer sees the reason for the large number of orphaned blogs in the overconfidence of many: "Everyone thinks they have something to say - until you get people on stage and ask them to actually say something." Moreover, according to Plummer, most people who wanted to start a blog had already put this idea into practice. There is therefore a lack of newcomers for the growth rates to date. At the moment, however, there is not much sign of a decline in blogs. According to the company Technorati, which indexes blogs, around 100,000 new blogs and 1.3 million blog entries are still being created every day.
