The Future? Your thoughts wanted.
What will happen in the future with blogs, podcasts, & more?
Submit your ideas/posts and I'll publish some of them!
I have my thoughts and have interviewed quite a few others on their thoughts, but what are your opinions?
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Three things will happen in the near future:
1. Use of RSS Readers becomes commonplace. They become the default way people follow blogs. People share their favorite feeds with colleagues. Pre-loaded RSS readers are provided to new employees, freshmen students, enrollees in training programs and similar groups. People subscribe to premium RSS packages.
2. The dynamics of social networking (via links, trackbacks etc) results in an elite few content providers rising to the top. These are bloggers who are the most valued by a particular niche at any one time. Guilds of elite bloggers will form to assist each other in maintaining their reputation.
3. At some point at least one other CEO of a Fortune 500 company will join Jonathan Schwartz as a bone-fide blogger.
Posted by: Ian | 04 September 2006 at 10:23 PM
In the future, we will no longer speak of "blogs," because this will be the default platform upon which most websites are built. It will be expected that readers can comment on any web page they want, because the technology permits this. Delivery of blog/website content by email to inboxes will be further refined and used by everyone, without reference to the RSS mechanisms that are behind the scenes. It will be assumed that every professional has a blog, and they will be referred to as commonly as a business card.
Posted by: Patsi Krakoff, The Blog Squad | 05 September 2006 at 09:07 AM
The question will change from "Do you / does your company have a blog?" to "How do you / does your company use technology to share helpful information with others?"
Posted by: Easton Ellsworth | 14 September 2006 at 02:22 PM