Some weeks ago, Duncan Riley of Blog Heralds talked about the decline of the geek bloggers:

I’m never one to mince words, so I’m getting straight to it: the geek bloggers are in decline and there is very little they can do about it.

He explained this assertion with the fact that blogging is evolving and that new generations of bloggers are emerging. The only thing I whish is that he is right, and if we check at the current state of the Blogsphere, he is right.

Blogging is evolving, and his real utility is emerging. Reading geek bloggers are really interesting if you have an interest into the theories of blogging. These geek bloggers opened a path to future generation of bloggers; tested and developed the technologies that support the concept.

Is it good news? You bet. Blogging give to people the ability to say what they want to talk about, anonymously or not. Blogging is cheap, easy to use, and spreading is everywhere. Currently, people are taming the concept and evaluating its value. A person(blogger) will talk about his journey, another one will talk about his professional experiences, another one will talk about his cancer, another one will talk about his experience into the Katrina hurricane, another one will talk about his life in Delhi in September 2004, etc. You see the picture?

Currently we see blogging as a way to talk to others, a way to express yourself, and a new way to communicate. However, on the long run, blogging will be a way to have a sort of chronological social encyclopedia. Historians in 20, 30, 40, or 100 years will search in blog archives to know what people lived in a special situation, and how they lived it.

Blogging is becoming a planetary personal journal that will be usable by future generations to know what happened during a special event or how their ancestors lived.

This vision is only possible if people, any people, geek or not, from anywhere on the world, from any social environment, blog.

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