A very dry recount of events and numbers, A Brief History of Blogging is an interesting document of 2011’s zeitgeist. Its predictions are both wrong and spot on at the same time.
Blogs are unlikely to go anywhere in the foreseeable future. But there’s a lot of room for growth and innovation in method in which their content is found, delivered, and accessed.
Blogs mostly disappeared from the public eye because the methods for distributing and accessing content changed dramatically in the years after.