Comments on: Bruce Sterling: blogs done in 10 years http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/16/bruce-sterling-blogs-done-in-10-years/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:13:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: bryan http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/16/bruce-sterling-blogs-done-in-10-years/#comment-14040 bryan Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:06:16 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/16/bruce-sterling-blogs-done-in-10-years/#comment-14040 In 10 years we will be enjoying the Fonzie renaissance and having speeches by science fiction authors beamed directly into our head via microwaves, with optional commentary by the disembodied brains of ex-bloggers. Blogs have jumped the shark alot lately: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:_OYs3SJAyGUJ:www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/16867698.htm+%22million+abandoned+blogs%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=ca In 10 years we will be enjoying the Fonzie renaissance and having speeches by science fiction authors beamed directly into our head via microwaves, with optional commentary by the disembodied brains of ex-bloggers.

Blogs have jumped the shark alot lately:
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:_OYs3SJAyGUJ:www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/16867698.htm+%22million+abandoned+blogs%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=ca

]]> By: Augie De Blieck Jr. http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/16/bruce-sterling-blogs-done-in-10-years/#comment-14039 Augie De Blieck Jr. Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:21:03 +0000 http://www.comicsbeat.com/2007/03/16/bruce-sterling-blogs-done-in-10-years/#comment-14039 Nobody there heard a word he said. They were all on Twitter telling their friends where they were at the moment, too busy to notice the speech. And he might be partially right -- I wouldn't be surprised to see a decline in the overall number of blogs. But I don't think they're going to crash and burn like he's thinking. Of course, blogs will only go away after The Next Big Communication Tool comes along. And I think ten years is plenty of time to discover that. Nobody there heard a word he said. They were all on Twitter telling their friends where they were at the moment, too busy to notice the speech.

And he might be partially right — I wouldn’t be surprised to see a decline in the overall number of blogs. But I don’t think they’re going to crash and burn like he’s thinking.

Of course, blogs will only go away after The Next Big Communication Tool comes along. And I think ten years is plenty of time to discover that.

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