It’s end-of-year-list time on the Internet. Yawn. But as always in amongst the dull there’s the occasional diamond. I’d recommend you have a skim through Rex Sorgatz’s 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008 on Fimoculous, a post that is raised from the mire by being really interesting and useful should you be wanting a snapshot of what’s been happening with the blog medium these last 12 months. Sure, it’s filtered through a very specific view of the Internet and doesn’t necessarily reflect the spheres you or I inhabit but you will probably find something illuminating in there trend-wise.
I liked the description of Tumblr as “the platform that has essentially reignited the personal blogging movement: reblogs over comments, overheard conversation over discursive prose, clique over mass, fast over deliberative.” I’ll also be keeping tabs on Kevin Kelly’s The Technium “The mission: to use technology as a stick, or perhaps a poker, to shake and jab at society. No one has written more clearly about how technology is shaping — and can be used to shape — culture.” A post to keep returning to methinks.