Jan
3rd
The Future of Blogging – Predictions for 2009 – Update
On 29th December I published The Future of Blogging – Predictions for 2009, and shared my predictions for 2009. On the same post I asked my readers about their predictions for 2009. You may find the answers herebelow:
“As you have rightly pointed out videos will play a major role. Reading is not favored by many. So audio, video content and images in blogs will be used to make blogs sticky.
Micro blogging will gain ground and videos in micro bits of focused information will become popular.
Instead of running around social sites bloggers will convert their blogs into social hubs. The biggest crowd pullers will be profitable. New ways of getting visitors to the blogs and helping them hang out longer will have to be thought of.
New rules of SEO optimization are being set which web designers and WordPress bloggers will have to keep in mind.
Webinars will take the place of physical seminars and teleseminars. To cut the cost in this economic downtime more and more people will turn to webinars. Webinars with integrated VOIP are increasingly being preferred over teleseminars.”
“I agree with you, I feel blogging is going to increase by thousands. With so many needing help to pay bills and things people are going to turn to the internet. I also feel it will be a year that people will strife to get a handle on their finances. That is why I love the tool that I offer. The company that produces this tool moto is to get every American out of debts that wants to be debt free. I think 2009 we will see most Americans trying to get a handle on their finances and an increase in people needing help.”
“Mert, First, nice evaluation and expectations of the blogosphere. Second, thanks for the mention in your article. 
Companies discovering blogging and so on; I also see this happening, I’m sure some all ready are in the grind but others are slow at adjusting or taking new trends in technology because many of their employees are older, not willing to learn and outdated. Has anyone seen a company effectively use a blog or social networking site? I mean, a big experienced company not a recent start up.
As far as blogging rules, people hate pop-ups but use them for whatever reason. Why do we insist on putting others through hurdles we ourselves despise? Stumbled and reviewed! -Mig”
“Hi Mert,
I think in 2009 blogs will be categorized more, there will be text blogs, image blogs, and video blogs, which will help end users choose what kind of content they want to encounter.”
“people are using micro blogs like twitter to popularize their blogs. how can we say that blogging is dead “
About the categorization of blogs, I think that this could happen in terms of topic or the content, which is already the case. I don’t think that blogs are to differ as text / image / video. End users should be able to find all in one. A blog that encounters text, image and video for a particular content should be more appealing and enriched.