I just want to make it clear from the start that I have for sometime felt that there is going to be a shake-out in the blogosphere. While I couldn’t really put my finger on the reason I felt that way I knew in my gut that it was coming. The rumblings could be heard in the different corners of places like Friendfeed, Twitter and the blogs. The natives were getting restless and time was becoming a commodity that we just didn’t seem to have enough of anymore.
People who had previously started blogs as a way to express themselves were abandoning them in favor of the simplicity and immediacy of the real-time web. This was the beginning and in a lot of ways I look upon it as a good thing because really when push comes to shove it helped reduce the competition for readers.
Oh Scoble, you are so damn predictable
True to form of course Robert showed up in the Friendfeed comment thread around my posted headline and shared the following words of wisdom:
While it was rewarding to see more than a few Friendfeed commenter’s come to my defense as well as a couple point out how ignorant his comment was (hat tip to Andy de Soto and Sprague D) the overall reaction to the post wasn’t a surprise.
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