Future of Blogging

Wordpress.com

Redefinition

A blog isn't a person, it's a (personal) brand's point of view, shown through curation

A 'blog' is a filter, very specific search results

A blog is the long term persistence of public identity, across all domains

A 'blog' is not a certain technology, URL or platform (like wordpress). It's simply the result of "blogging". So every webspace where a person publishes his personal view on the world without editorial control is a blog.

A blog is a content format

Long columns, 2-3

Newest at top

Automatically interacts with other blogs (trackbacks)

Automatically generated internal links (categories, tags, monthly, etc.)

Evolution

Blogs Become Lifestreams

Your home on the web, The Launching Point for Your Identity, Sweetcron (to lifestreaming what Wordpress is to blogging), Good for writers to express expert point of view

Nodes that syndicate your content, Posterous, Tumblr

Nodes that aggregate your streams, Friendfeed, Tumblr

Personal Location Tracking/Maping, Bright Kite, Bright Kite, Dopplr, Google Maps

Digital "Life Archives", Flickr, YouTube, Posterous, Facebook

Integration of Mobile Publishing

How does this integrate / filter with personal life streams?, Further merging of personal/professional life, more sole proprietorships

Blogs Become BusinessStreams

Blogs Become Home for Essay Style Content

Infrequent posting schedule

Augmented With Lifestreams

Sequence of essays over time to tell author's "story"

Government Data Streams

Personal Health, Emotion, Consumption Streams are aggregated, parsed, fedback

Are these aggregated and interpreted by other services?

Resources, Money forces businesses to change practices

Blogs Become Social Networks

Linked Through Connective Tissue, Connective Tissue Standard Emerges, Plug-ins, Bring Twitter Links to Blogs, Bring Friendfeed Chatter to Blogs, Facebook Connect, Twitter OAuth, Google Friend Connect, DISQUS, Intense Debate

Blog-focused Social Networks, TypePad Profiles, Blogger.com Friends, Drupal/Joomla Websites

UX improves simplifying for beginners, less tech terms/actions (pingback, trackback), people don't have to deal with hosting, registrars, database, config, setup, better / more intuitive visual design that enable one to "blog"

Blogs Become 'TV' Channels

Multimodal, with every form of structured and unstructured information

Multimodal, many ways to navigate, both aggregating and syndicating to many services and platforms

The Platform, Not the Content

Blogging platforms refined as automated carriers of content, Devices "blog" their content

Blogs become data carriers, Objects "blog" their state, Bodies "blog"

Map-Based Blogging Network

Google Wave makes Blogs real time

Darwinism

New Formats Subsume Blogs

Microblogs Erodes Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed

Social Networks Erode Blogs, Facebook

Journalism Subsume Blogs

News Organized by Time Rather than Priority, Filtered by interests, Tags?, Change over time

Newspapers Turn to All-Blog Format

Personal Blogs Fade in Favor of Other Formats

News/Opinion Blogs Essentially Seen as Media

Social Media/Blogging Takes a "Hyper Local" Approach

Thoughtful writing works in multiple long-form content management systems (blog, traditional CMS, e-mail)

New Formats Enhance Blogs

Building43.com embeds Friendfeed group in blog sidebar

Google Wave adds collaborative editing, Leverages the best of email, IM, Wiki, etc in one stream

Fast Retires Slow

Realtime aggregation / browsability makes blogging "too slow"