Des prévisions "bloguiennes" pour cette année : un déclin des navigateurs au profit du RSS

Ces prédictions pour 2004 repérées par Blogroots ne sont pas très optimistes pour les blogs personnels, plus sensées pour les blogs professionnels et le RSS qui se développerait de manière exponentielle au profit du déclin des navigateurs Web :

"5. Professional Blogs: Weblogs in 2004 will go through a transition as the explosive growth in the number of bloggers will slow, but the quality of the active blogs will become much better. The blog technology and uses will expand in 2004 to include more professional journalists, online experts, major media and corporations. The blog hype in 2003 will settle into a smaller group of bloggers as many personal blogs will go out of date for increasingly longer periods of time as many lose interest in keeping them up to date. This is the way personal webpages declined a few years ago.

Really simple syndication, better known as RSS, took the Internet by storm in 2003 as many bloggers began using this XML-based standard to share and syndicate written content to RSS News Reader applications. RSS is not really a new Internet protocol as it uses the web to syndicate and share content and links. Look to 2004 to be the year of RSS as we see it compete directly and improve on the World Wide Web and be a part of the decline in use of the web browser."