Blogging is changing, it has always been changing, and will continue to change. Blogs used to be about people’s cats and weekend photos, blogs then became mini news outlets, then myspace came along and they were about cats again. Somewhere along the way blogs gained credibility and became major news sources, magazines, or just a wealth of useful information. And the next step is cutting down the ever growing number of feeds in your reader to just a few, corporation sized blogs.

Blogs make money, and in some cases, a lot of money. But these are not blogs as a layperson would know them, they are huge sites with a massive amount of information, several posts a day with several different authors. I call them “Uber Blogs”, mostly because I’m a nerd. These “Uber Blogs” are more like publications, and what I see as “the future”.

Before you go and lynch me in angry mob style, let me explain the landscape of this blogging future. These uber blogs will become your bread and butter, your morning newspaper. They will be very author orientated, and as such, bloggers will save their best posts/tutorials/rantings/themes/whatever for the uber blogs. And the regular blog will essentially stay the same, except they will become more personal once again, just maybe not to the extent of seeing cat pictures again.

I think this is a good thing! Keeping up with news is now a part time job, having a few key uber blogs covering the niches you are interested in will help. But blogging isn’t going away, I’ll still be able to read Khoi Vihn’s thoughts about the news if I want.

Questions Questions and More Qustions

I’m curious to know what you think now. Where is blogging headed? Where do you want it to head? Should you wear pants while blogging? How do you think advertising will work for small blogs? Will the Raiders ever be good again? Are you still reading this? Are there too many questions for one post? Is blogging dead? Is micro blogging the future?