Has the blogosphere peaked? This fellow thinks it has, at least as far as the tech blogosphere goes. Admittedly, because blogging has been seen as something of a technical thing to do (and if it were, why would I do it? I ask yez) the tech blogosphere is a couple of years, call it two to four years, ahead of the rest of the blogosphere. Business is not far behind, because if they think there's money in it, they're on it like stink on shit. Politics? Well, they're way behind money, but they're next. And the blogs are better. It's just too bad not many politicians are blogging, because the self-destruct potential there is just mouth-watering, ain't it? After that comes self-cutting Angelina Jolie fans and sexually deprived middle-aged women: this section is called social blogging, and it's far larger and more powerful than politics and business. Then comes the traditional media; the Guardian is the best, and even that, I'm sorry, sucks donkeys. I know you want to break the stories in the regular part of the paper, but blogs are all about immediacy. There's no point blogging on Thursday about something that happened on Monday. Commentary blogs? Well, who wants to listen to pompous old windbags like Blumenthal unless you can spout off at him when he deserves it, which is always just for being such a pompous windbag. All Canadian papers appear to be ahead of all American papers, but behind all UK papers except the News of the World and the Sun; they can't blog, because they type with their prehensile toes and can't keep up or use long words.

Right. It's a link post. It's a post about a link.

Let's face it, you need to be a certain type of person to blog. You need to be something of a workaholic because good blogging takes time and anyone who's any good should have a pretty full plate anyhow; you need to be able to string a few sentences together; you need to have a raging ego and you need to have a head for ideas. If you're one of those people, you've almost certainly already started to blog.