When someone in my family jumped the gun in conversation, my grandfather said don’t be so d&*% previous, something I’ve never heard from anyone else.
I believe it was Gartner who predicted that he decline of blogging would begin this year (by some 40%). For Redmonk, this is clearly not the case. In the latest ranking’s, they take places 1-3, with 3 total bloggers.
I know they have influenced me and many of the IBM’rs. There must be many others out there who also have been touched. There are many in IBM that are not bloggers, but read them vigorously. Case in point, I was sitting in the team room at the latest RSDC show, and the PR lead for one of the groups was waiting for the blog to come up from Steve O’Grady….at the show.
Hat’s off to you guys, forcing a new model and succeeding. So I guess that some of the lame bloggers may have dropped off, but the creme is rising to the top.
Update: Tekrati confirms it. So does David Berlind.
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Your point about Gartner is well made - what surprises me though is that they have only attempted a token stab at it. If they are serious about advising on this and other similar mediums then they must get their act together.
In case you want to see the full list, the top 50 analyst bloggers is published on my blog and will be reviewed every quarter.
Link to Top 50 analyst bloggers
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