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What does 2008 hold in store? Nobody knows for sure, but we can make some pretty educated observations. I’d like to offer mine. Feel free to add yours in the comments.
Here we go:
Video blogging will be bigger than ever
- More bloggers will start doing video.
- Online video sites like YouTube will expand their services.
- New online video services and applications will appear for direct recording and editing.
- Many smaller video sharing sites will die off, consolidation will begin.
Mobile blogging will become super hot
- Mobile blogging and video blogging will continue to converge (Qik is an example).
- More bloggers will be concerned about how their blogs look in a mobile browser.
- Travel blogging and news blogging will see growth.
Blogging itself will continue to spread and transform
- Blogging will continue to transform itself into the new journalism. Old journalists will continue to be bitter about it. More journalists will become bloggers.
- The design of blogs will continue to evolve as aspects of blogging weave their way into “normal” websites. The explosive growth of magazine and news style WordPress themes will continue. 2008 is going to see tremendous experimentation in blog design.
- Bloggers will play a bigger role in the U.S. presidential elections in 2008 than ever before.
- I think there will be rapid growth in business blogs compared to personal blogs as social networking takes over for blogging in some ways.
- The relationship between social networks and blogs will continue to evolve as new tools and services appear. Blogs will become more social, incorporating some of the functions of social networks.
It’ll be interesting to look back at this post at the end of 2008 and see how accurate it is. Care to add your thoughts on the state of blogging for 2008? You know what to do…
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