"Robert X. Cringely" has his computer industry predictions for 2003. While all are interesting, #15 speaks to blogdom:
15. And finally, with the continued (and to me totally inexplicable) rise of web logs, someone -- maybe Google -- will come up with an effective blog search engine to read all that junk for us and extract what we really care about.Based on my referrer log, it looks like Google does that now. At least as well as any web search engine ever works.
The Guardian also has a list, many entries of which are pretty mundane, but some are interesting:
Mobile photosAnd send those snaps to The Smoking Gun! Well, maybe not the ones you are in.
After a slow start (today they are too expensive and don't easily work between operators) camera phones will boom in 2003. Prices will drop as operators try to encourage us to send photos to friends. Equally addictive is taking photos of people, places and events to create your own visual diary. Don't leave home without one.