Blogs Hit Mainstream?

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When will blogging be truly mainstream? Is it already?

I content we are well on our way, and will be there when:

1) the words "blog" and "blogging" disappear from common usage, and sound anachronistic like the terms "zoot suit"  and

and

2) Blogging software disappears — it's just assumed or integrated into something else.

Although "blog" and blogging haven't disappeared yet, blogging software is starting to disappear.

For example, Web content management software provider Bizzuka has integrated blogging capabilities into their product. A another example, many Web hosting providers, including BlueHost which I use, offer "one click" installation of blogging software, and it may soon be "no click" and already there.

In the future, which may be next year or next decade, most Web sites will have an informal conversational component, much like blogs of today. Some will resemble blogs closely, some others, who knows?