Good point, Shel. In fact, I agree that the sale of Denton's underperforming assets do not necessarily reflect the vitality of the blogosphere.
He hung out a "for sale" sign because the audience for those blogs weren't commanding the ad revenue his (traditional media) business model requires. Maybe music will work better for him?
That news, however, coupled with the disputed Jupiter survey data cited on your blog, sparked the idea for this posting: should every enterprise, no matter the industry, be encouraged to blog, or are there certain industries for which blogging makes no sense?
To put it differently, how long does the already long tail need to grow before those on it decide there's little ROI?
This seems to me somewhat of an innocuous argument from denton. There are also more websites than people on Earth. I would also guess there are more phones and email addresses. Blogs are a tool for communicating. The tools will continue to evolve and as they do more and more people will use them. The fact that Nick had a couple of financial losers to wean from his stable, does not seem to me to be a relevent data point in forecasting the end of the most persistant technology adoption explosion in history.
Interesting post Peter. I've added it to the New PR Crispynews site.
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