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August 22, 2005
Has blogging hit the third generation of evoluation?
Duncan at The Blog Herald has an interesting post where he posits that blogging has entered it's third generations. His analysis is based on Technorati and Feedster standing. The post is a good read and I will be thinking it through today for sure.
Blogging has essentially developed in waves or generations, each of which was notable for the backgrounds of the majority of people entering the blogosphere at each point.
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3G: the consumer bloggers (2005+)
You know I chuckle when I see articles discussing whether blogging has gone mainstream or not because its as though the people writing such nonsense must be so insular as to not see a thing that's going on around them, because blogging has gone mainstream, and 3G bloggers are flooding into the blogosphere at the rate of millions per week. This generation of bloggers is different to the past two generation of bloggers because the geek companionship of the 1st generation and the extroversion that drove the 2nd generation has been replaced by a sense of normality. Most new bloggers blog because they can, because others are, and because to many people (perhaps more so amongst younger people, and in particular amongst teens) having a blog is now regarded as a normal behaviour, just like having an email address and mobile phone are normal as well. For me the dawning of the consumer generation was MSN Spaces, because (perhaps much to the delight, or even credit of Mike Torres) Spaces works, and despite the initial limitations on launch I'd noted at the time Microsoft once again displayed an amazing ability to get inside the head of the average person and deliver a product they would use.
Posted by prolurkr at August 22, 2005 06:53 AM
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