tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11819349.post113683812741688565..comments2007-04-15T18:00:19.345+02:00Carl Enerothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03056861525653499318noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11819349.post-1140531966382562732006-02-21T15:26:00.000+01:002006-02-21T15:26:00.000+01:00Comment from Richard Flynn: <BR/><BR/> I think that Blogging will go through a process similar to the early days of the web. At the moment there is a huge expansion, driven to a considerable extent by the fun and exploratory aspects of new technologies. However, I don't see this as lasting without some changes, most of all the financial aspects your article discusses. <BR/> <BR/>At the moment specialists in all areas of education seem happy to share their ideas freely and without any income from it. I don't think this will last on the current scale. Financing through things like Adsense, which is traffic-driven, will almost certainly bring in the same SEO techniques being used. Though a small site can generate large levels of traffic, this is not particularly common, and the majority of blogs have fairly small readership. To generate the traffic, it is likely that there will be a coming together into groups, more capable of generating the kind of traffic required to finance the services. In many cases where they don't do this, or manage to do it alone, I see a lot of bloggers simply giving up, just as many early websites did. <BR/><BR/>With the low-costs of blogging and<BR/>the fact that the software does a lot of the work for people, they<BR/>should be able to adapt and change rapidly. In my area, there are<BR/>thousands of blogs and new ones start every day. I imagine that two or three years down the road, numbers will be smaller, but some very interesting groups will emerge.Carl Enerothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07682333059404673124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11819349.post-1136901359773202022006-01-10T14:55:00.000+01:002006-01-10T14:55:00.000+01:00This is great stuff, Although i'm not focusing on educators as my primary audience (but my mother is a former teacher and now school district admin)<BR/><BR/>I'm trying to educate business folks on the whole web 2.0 thing<BR/><BR/>Check out a white paper that I co-authored with Dennis McDonald<BR/><BR/>http://jeremiahthewebprophet.blogspot.com/2006/01/white-paper-business-and-it-must-work.html<BR/><BR/><BR/>Check out his blog at <BR/>http://ddmcd.squarespace.com/Jeremiah Owyanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16095103768821847702noreply@blogger.com