When I first took up blogging, many people told me that I wouldn’t be at it for very long. They said that blogging was a fad that would quickly fade away. Well, it is not fading way so far according to Red Herring which says that one-sixth of the total U.S. population read web logs in the first quarter of 2005.
U.S. blog readership in the first quarter jumped 45 percent to 49.5 million people, or one-sixth of the total U.S. population….The increase means 30 percent of U.S. Internet users visited blog sites in the quarter, according to the comScore Media Metrix report.
This is raising the visibility of blogs for advertisers.
So what happens when something catches on in the technology world? Microsoft joins in, of course!!
Seeking to raise its profile in the increasingly influential world of bloggers, software giant Microsoft said Monday it has launched a preview version of its new community blogging service called MSN Filter that will focus on topics like music and fashion in addition to technology.
Given Madison Avenue and Microsoft are joining the blogging world, maybe my blogging days are numbered after all……