The blog revolution is officially over!

You heard it here first, folks. The blog revolution is officially over!

The insane growth of the blogging space is finally done, and Jacky-come-lately’s are leaving blogging in droves. There’s been a clear descent of blogging over the past six months. Blogging really started to pick up around 2004. A lot of people got into the game at that point. And 2005 was even higher. People who don’t even like words or writing started blogging.

The peak was to come. And in the second half of 2006 the peak has come and gone. And now we’re on the backside of blogging. Oh, there will be a lot of people who still blog, don’t get me wrong. And we here at Manufactured Environments will continue to bring you quality product for an “almost free” price.

I used to keep track of over 100 blogs via my Bloglines account. That number is hovering around a much lower number now, and more of the feeds are not even blogs but news feeds or aggregators of some sort.

But what remains after all of this are most of the strongest voices. My own subscribing habits have changed. I used to subscribe to lots of different feeds—Tom, Dick, and Sally—but now my blog reading is more concentrated on fewer but stronger voices—people like Seth Godin or Jeff Jarvis. Even Zeldman doesn’t seem as much into the blogging game as he used to be (although I think he always eschewed that terminology).

So here’s a memoriam to all those bloggers who have come and gone, the people we used to know through the blog. We know you’re still online — just other places.