Micro Persuasion: Gartner Says Blogging Will Peak in 2007

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Gartner Says Blogging Will Peak in 2007

The folks at Gartner have come out with their top 10 predictions for 2007. One of them is that blogging will peak in 2007. This echos the data points discussed we looked at earlier this week.

According to AP, Gartner says the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide. "The reason: Most people who would ever dabble with Web journals already have. Those who love it are committed to keeping it up, while others have gotten bored and moved on."

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