Cool post about the last 5 years in blogs…
I was just starting with blogs around 5 years ago. That feels like 50 years in internet time!
A Look Back At the Last 5 Years in Blogging
Five years is eons in Internet time, and a lot has changed in the blogosphere since 2005. Sites have been born, sites have died, sites have grown up and others have faded away. Entirely new blogging formats have been created and business empires have been built on the foundations of humble blog beginnings.
Today’s blogosphere is larger and more diverse than it was five years ago, and yet only a few blogs — the so-called “A-listers” — have risen to a place of dominance in the new media landscape. The blogosphere of 2010 is also powered in many ways by social media, something that barely existed five years ago, and was likely an afterthought to most hobbyist bloggers of the day.
Then and Now
In July 2005, by penning his first post on this site, Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore was joining a blogging movement that had already swelled to over 14 million blogs, and was growing at a rate of 80,000 per day. Yet, while most of those bloggers were of the journaling variety, Mashable was entering an evolving blogosphere. While 2005 was not the first year in which any one person made a living at blogging, it does mark a number of important milestones in the transition of the blogosphere as a place of primarily random thoughts and banalities to one that now supports a growing number of burgeoning media empires.
Read more at mashable.com
