Not long ago I was ranting about all of the hype surrounding the recent surge in blogging's popularity. Today, via Scobleizer, I have stumbled upon the third sign of the Blogosphere Apocalypse. Let's face it, when something gets big enough to garner the attention of CNN, it's pretty much over.
“Technorati CEO David L. Sifry will be on-site at the (Democratic) convention to provide on-air analysis on which political blogs are getting most attention and which ideas are generating lots of buzz by tracking the conversations in thousands of blogs across the entire political spectrum in real time. “
Now, I'm sure that “CEO David L. Sifry“ is a very nice and intelligent person. With a name like David, how could he not be? It's just that he's on CNN because his company basically does blog indexing and aggregation. Absurd. While at the Technorati web site, I figured that I'd have a peek at the Top 100. No surprises in the top 2 slots. Slashdot followed by Scott Watermask. I'm not sure that Slashdot even qualifies as a “blog” and I would be very disappointed indeed if the father of .Text didn't rank at least in the top 5. He should be first and since in my little world Slashdot doesn't exist, he is.
The Fourth Sign
While scanning the Top 100 I noticed that no less than 6 or them are from SuicideGirls. Now, it's really no surprise that “Pin-Up, Punk Rock and Goth Girls: Pictures, Journals, and Videos” would be popular given the number of men that own computers with access to the Internet. This simply speaks to the importance (i.e. lack thereof ) of blogging and the fact that it will inevitably self-destruct.
Also in the Top 100 are the official sites of both the Kerry and Bush campaigns. So, combine the CNN factor with SuicideGirls, Kerry, and Bush and you've pretty much sealed blogging's fate.
Dave
Just because I can...(and so can everyone else...)