Blogs Up!

I think it's going to replace TV and radio, that's what I think. Or rather, video, audio, and other media will be incorporated so smoothly into the publish-subscribe pattern (blogging) that the commercial industry as we know it today will cease to exist.
After all, who's going to take up the cause of the Texas man who saved someone from drowning only to be arrested for interference? Or tell us that the French are actually helping the US quite a bit in the war on terror? Or that teachers in Thailand are going to be allowed to carry guns to school?
I liked these stories. Maybe you will too. Maybe not. But the point is that while I spent an hour reading stories picking out interesting content, you only spent a few seconds reading this post, saving you time.
So I think in the future we'll begin to "clan" even more so than now, forming loose associations of people with like-minded interests. Based on blogs, we'll have just as many media choices (if not more!) than we currently do.
This leaves open the most interesting question: how are we going to form these associations? How do I know what kinds of people have ideas that will interest me? That's the $10 Billion question, in my book. My best guess is that we'll eventually standardize on some psychological profiling system that will enable content matching. Sort of online dating meets the water cooler. Or better yet, perhaps our computers will be able to read our emotions, taking us to and from sites that most fit what we're feeling at the time. Very interesting indeed.