Let's face it, not everyone was meant to be a writer and publisher, which is what blogs enable perhaps too easily. Of course everyone has the ability to self express through all kinds of social media tools now, but not everyone's public self actualization produces brilliance and insight when presented in journal format. I'm glad the less brilliant thoughts we all have will soon find homes in more appropriate formats.
My hope is that blog format CMS remains and evolves as a publishing platform for those individuals and organizations who have something to say and go about writing and publishing thoughtful pieces for audiences who appreciate them. I also hope Twitter and other statusphere services evolve from social experiments into useful social disucussion networks. Of course the enabling original technologies for these evolutions will become obsolate (i.e., "die") for this to happen, but so what? Isn't that the fun of it?
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