GoGadgetGurl!™: Are There Too Many Blogs?

Maybe, but does it matter? I read a small article in Wired Magazine: 16.11 (that's the November '08 issue) that gave me pause. It said, "Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug". No, I haven't decided to end GoGadgetGurl!, in fact I've committed to writing it more often. I feel strongly that stories about how women integrating technology into their lives is an important perspective to add to the conversation and I choose blogging as my venue. And by writing more, I hopefully I'll get better.

That small article in Wired introduced me to "The Huffington Post" which the article sighted as part of the reason for the demise of the blog's fresh frontier. I also recently read two nytimes articles ("Huffington and Brown: Paths Intertwine in the Blog Thicket"" and "Editor of Note, Perched Online") that give me reason to celebrate women and blogs. It was encouraging to discover Arianna Huffington's successful two-year old Huffington Post (estimated to be worth $200 million), and her close friend's Tina Brown's latest venture, The Daily Beast, that's almost a month-old and backed by a rumored $18 million. I'm not going to critique these sites (not yet anyway). What I do want to say is, the the uncharted frontier of blogs may be being taken over by the masses, yet the future is far from over today as far as I'm concerned. Like the the settlers that settled the Western Frontier of the United States, the blogosphere promises to continue to grow into lush and beautiful place to be where anyone may express themselves, anyone can comment, nicely or meanly, and conversation is alive and well.