Weblogs: 25 Years into the future

The huge media conglomerate Pyra/Time Warner, recently completed their acquisition of General Motors from Salon.
Dave Winer mounts an unsuccessful senate campaign. Winer’s loss has been attributed to a scandalous photo posted on media website slashdot.org, of Mr Winer having a relaxing lunch and laughing with zaphod of Winerlog.
Tara Sue Grubb‘s, NC (I), internet music taxation bill passed, resulting in life sentences for anyone downloading non regulated formats (MP3, MPEG, HTML) on the internet.
Community weblog Metafilter, recently announced their 1,000,000 member, MiguelCardoso3 : the grandson of MiguelCardoso. In the thread announcing the member, members were heard to say “I welcome our 1,000k Overlords”.
The beginning of what has been called “Alzblog” communities have sprung up, as the first wave of bloggers with Alzheimer’s continue to blog about the heyday of the late 20th century weblog communities.
The person thought to be the elusive “Neu” is actually 20th century terrorist, Eric Rudolph. FBI officials found Rudolph in the North Georgia mountains with a 8 x 8 shack complete with satellite internet connections.
The early 00′s web designer/guru to the stars, Jeffery Zeldman, has founded the “Cult of Jakob” in the Tennessee mountains. Tivo stars, Adrian Zimed and Moxie are said to be among the ten thousand members. Ironically the cult’s website doesn’t validate.

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6 Responses to “Weblogs: 25 Years into the future”

  1. A quick note about trackbacks: the url that the MT bookmark picks up and pings for this entry is http://weblog.mkelley.net/archive/001021.php, which isn’t the one that you say to use below. Perhaps something in the template needs changed? I don’t really know how that works.

  2. Graham you’re right. I think it’s because some of my older posts didn’t come over correctly when I moved from a flat file to MySQL. I’ll see what I can fix.
    So if anyone wants to TB, use the url Graham posted.
    Tx,
    mike

  3. Ok, the Trackback thing is fixed. The actual link in the page is valid.

  4. To take a serious spin on this topic, Shamit, I was driving into work one day, I started thinking about how what I do (blogging) is unknown among most of the people I’m around daily. And it wouldn’t be until more people learn about blogging, we’re going to start seeing plot lines on TV shows, actual shows with the personallities behind the blog (The Reverse Cowgirl for instance), and just a complete bastardization of what we know now. Good or bad it’s going to happen.
    But it’s really just a joke to think that anyone can predict what even the next 2 years hold for the weblog community. Will we still have the same inside jokes on Metafilter? Will Blogger even be around, MT or Radio too? Now imaging that they are all still around then and become a powerful presence in the media. I just took a different look at it all.
    I never expected the amount of attention it’s receiving.

  5. BLOGS AS SOURCES OF INFO
    But sometimes official AND FORMAL weblogs THOSE THAT ARE TRUSTED do become misleading dont they – Atleast, its very much possible . . .
    Came across your site from Evhead’s site
    - SHAMIT BAGCHI @
    http://shamitbagchi.blogspot.com/

  6. Hi, im a student at loughborough university, thinking of my final year project. Im thinking of looking into weblogs, but not sure what areas to focus on in making my reasearch interesting. I understan that this is a wide question, but if u could put me on the right track and i decide to reasearch into this field i will keep you posted with my finding. Thanking you in advance Faisal