It’s not about the blogs, anymore.

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, the quarter just ended, and we’re due for another State of the Blogosphere report. My money is on a big decline. Well, at least with blogs. And that’s where the story is, according to Dave Sifry. Today, he posted a State of Technorati post. It doesn’t come out and say that blogs have gone to the dogs, but instead he looks toward where the growth is: social media. So now, instead of just feeding up searches of blog posts and Flickr photos, Technorati includes

blog posts, photos, videos, podcasts, music, people, and events that share a common tag to give our visitors a view into who’s saying what - who’s doing what - across the Live Web, all in real time.

Sifry says that Technorati’s monthly visitors have gone up 141% in the past quarter. More people than ever are searching for all of the crap people are putting up online.

Check here later in the week for the actual State of the Blogosphere report. It’s not a question of has blogging declined? but rather by how much? We’ll do our critical analysis of the analysis once the report hits the net.

We like tags here at Manufactured Environments, but my little wish is that it could be automated. Or rather, I wish there was a standard taxonomy available for tagging. But mostly it’s up to the whim of the content creator. In a sense, we have all become librarians, applying metadata to our media, and thereby helping others to find it.