“Only when the proportional representation of entertainment, technology, culture, politics, and sports in blog “top 100” lists matches that in the broader media economy will we know that blogging has truly become mainstream. So if you want to watch a realtime blog-o-sphere mainstream-ing indicator, track the die-off of tech blogs from the Technorati top 100. When we’re down to 10 or so, call me. But by my count we’re currently at 31 tech/geek/science blogs in the Technorati 100, so we have a ways to go in the geek fall from grace. ”
–Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed, writing on the blogging’s democratization, in response to NY Magazine’s news package on bloggers.
“Only when the proportional representation of entertainment, technology, culture, politics, and sports in blog “top 100” lists matches that in the broader media economy will we know that blogging has truly become mainstream. So if you want to watch a realtime blog-o-sphere mainstream-ing indicator, track the die-off of tech blogs from the Technorati top 100. When we’re down to 10 or so, call me. But by my count we’re currently at 31 tech/geek/science blogs in the Technorati 100, so we have a ways to go in the geek fall from grace. ”
–Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed, writing on the blogging’s democratization, in response to NY Magazine’s news package on bloggers.