What goes up must also plateau awhile?

Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/24/twitter-wordpress-blogging-vs-microblogging/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)

Sensationalism and a doomsday premise always sells in a pithy headline. I'm more in sync. with this Techcrunch blogger on his sign-off words:

"So is blogging back, while microblogging is on the skids? A one-month spike in the popularity of blogs doesn’t tell you much of anything, but in any case it’s the wrong question. Blogging never really went away, and was in fact helped by Twitter, which is becoming the preferred feed reader for many people (thanks to services like Twitterfeed).

And don’t count out microblogging just yet. Twitter is finally rolling out improvements to its site such as Lists and the new Retweet button. Once geo-location features kick in, Twitter’s growth could come back with a vengeance."

2010 will be extremely interesting.

New ad-supported blog community site - another alternative

Out of Beta phase and out on the market today and picking up some buzz is AdRoll, aiming to fill the gap between AdSense and specialist competitors such as BlogAds.com, FederatedMedia.net, AdBrite.com and Pubmatic.com.

Remuneration for the millions of bloggers online continues to evolve and AdRoll adds to the online offerings, with individual bloggers signing up to AdRoll able to state their prices in an auction-type system, grouping themselves within the site's communities with aligned blogs on the same or complementary topics to present advertisers with a niche audience in Adroll communities clustering together similar blogs and subject areas.

Advertisers place a bid for that niche inventory and if the AdRoll rate betters the current AdSense rate, AdRoll ads appear in the banner space where Adsense or competitor networks run. With a reasonable 20% commission for the house system, that still leaves a respectable amount for the bloggers.

Small blogs and individuals will be able to work together in creating shared communities and commanding a better ad rate than their page views would allow individually. Guaranteed it won't yet make you rich, but with new options coming onto the market regularly such as AdRoll, blogging may just pay decently yet for more than the handful of top bloggers or early adopters worldwide.