Article on the future of blogging by technology analyst Bill Thompson in BBC online, Friday, 8 August, 2003:
"It seemed to me that the number of useless postings and blog entries was starting to increase and there was less and less there that was really of interest ...
"Perhaps the blogs, after a brief time when they were seen by some as a wholly new wave of internet development, are losing their appeal. In fact there have been bloggers and blogging tools available since 1997 when the term was coined by Jorn Barger.
But blogging has been mainstream for two years - how many days can someone keep on posting to their LiveJournal site, or visiting Blogger to add more details about their cat's mysterious illness? Or it may be that the blogs are going through the same thing as UseNet, the internet's original bulletin board system....."
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