Future of Blogging
Thoughtful writing works in multiple long-form content management systems (blog, traditional CMS, e-mail)
Personal Location Tracking/Mapping
Bright Kite
Bright Kite
Dopplr
Google Maps
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
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
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
Social Networks Erode Blogs
Multimodal, with every form of structured and unstructured information
Multimodal, many ways to navigate, both aggregating and syndicating to many services and platforms
Automatically generated internal links (categories, tags, monthly, etc.)
Integration of Mobile Publishing
How does this integrate / filter with personal life streams?
Further merging of personal/professional life, more sole proprietorships
More human understanding classification of content, publishing
Activity Steams http://activitystrea.ms
Wordpress.com
Redefinition
A blog is an online record of your personal brand
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)
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
Digital "Life Archives", Flickr, YouTube, Posterous, Facebook
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"
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
Evolution
New Formats Subsume Blogs
Microblogs Erodes Blogs, Twitter, Friendfeed
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"
