New Year’s predictions

In the future people without blogs will be as rare as people who don’t use email today.

128px-Feed-icon.svg.pngConsider RSS, for example. This is a fantastic resource brings virtually any kind of information you can think of to your desktop. Nevertheless, recent research shows that only 1 in 10 people have even heard of the term and a mere two percent actually use it.

OK, RSS is geeky you say? Fair enough. But consider that several studies conducted by the Pew Internet Center for American Life reveal that millions lurk but don’t publish. For example, only 35% of Americans post their photos online and only eight percent have ever published a blog.

Micro Persuasion: America’s New Digital Divide

Of course by then spammy email, as we know it now, will be gone. Replaced by some variation of instant messaging.

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