There is an interesting
article running over there at the
Blog Herald, about the "The demise of the geek bloggers." It's definitely worth giving a read, but in an effort to feed the commentary here on sambot::blogging allow me to offer up (my interpretation of) the
gist of the article:
Back in the day, when blogging was new to the scene, the technology had just recently been developed and not yet streamlined into the mass commodity that we see in mainstream culture today. The only bloggers that could effectively use the medium were the ones who understood the technology; the geeks. So logically, geeks were the ones who were blogging and of course, they were blogging about geek things. Now, with services like
Blogger, and
Live Journal, and the ten zillion others, blogging has hit a critical momentum point. The ease of use allows the non-geek to blog along side the best of 'em. And now that the non-geek is blogging, the blogs tend to have non-geek related themes.
Clearly, when mainstream culture absorbs anything, every aspect of it becomes mainstream and, by definition, becomes less unique. Blogs, once reveled as a niche thing, are now a mass commodity. And their topics that once dominated the culture have fallen to niche level. Really, it's an odd paradox.