Did the blog bubble burst?
Has growth in blogging stalled?
A new article in BusinessWeek says the numbers are pointing to a plateau in active blogs. The magazine is using stats from Technorati for the analysis, which found a decline in the percentage of blogs that are active compared to the total number of blogs tracked by Technorati.
It’s a familiar pattern–millions of people got excited by blogging and set up pages of their own. But after a while, they grew tired of maintaining them–or moved on to newer social phenomena like MySpace or Twitter–and let their blogs go silent. Does this mean blogging has joined the ranks of “mature” media? And is that good or bad? The bloggers who are still around are debating the issue.