Blog Pecking Order Gets Pecked Down by Smaller and Smaller Peckers

A dorky looking Steve Irwin, Matthew Hurst, of Microsoft Labs, intimates that the Blogosphere is on the wane. I picked this up from L Rainie’s Twitter feed.

Data Mining: Text Mining, Visualization and Social Media: Is Authority Migrating?

There’s an interesting discussion going on between Brian Solis at TechCrunch and Dorrion Carroll at Technorati. Brian’s thesis is that the number of inlinks to blogs from other blogs is dropping because microblogs and other attention sources are proliferating. Rather than link to something from your blog, you link to it from Twitter, for example.