This quote from Rich Karlgaard via Doc Searls captures something essential about blogging at the end of 2005:
Blogging is not overhyped. You may be forgiven for thinking so, as no day goes by without a story on blogs. But blogs are no fad. They are cheap and easy to do. And blogs fulfill that deepest of human needs as defined by psychologist Abraham Maslow: self-actualization. People write blogs because they want to know themselves and want to be known by others and because they want their lives to count. When a communications medium is both riding the Moore’s Law cost-capability curve and tapping into a deep need, it’s no fad.
All best wishes for 2006!
[Originally posted on DennisKennedy.Blog (http://www.denniskennedy.com/blog/)]