I was typing out a fairly expansive email to someone who had asked me about my views on the future of blogging and I realized that I have a ton of opinions on this subject and they haven't been blogged yet. How could I neglect to do this?

I was given a question about the future of blogging and it's eventual demographics and applications. I started with the future of blogging and how blogging has a fairly limited scope at the moment. I read an article about someone's thoughts on blogging (I wish I could find it) and they suggested the term 'blogging' will disappear within some time. Instead, people will use the terms coined to define different aspects of blogging. I don't agree that the term 'blogging' will disappear but I do agree that blogging has the ability to move in many different directions and it will eventually get specific names for those uses. I suggested that a way to move blogging in to different areas is to make it transparent. As mobile devices get more and more complex, they gain features such as the ability to blog to something like TypePad with email on your mobile phone. Blogging is organization. Perhaps you're organizing your personal thoughts or pictures from your camera phone - any place that needs organization will benefit from the ability to add a peice of information from anywhere and have it published, either publicly or privately, to a central location. Transparent blogging comes from being able to write part of a shopping list on a tablet that instantly adds your list with a list you'd created earlier that day. Perhaps someone else is going shopping for you - that list is available to send to anyone with a mobile device. Perhaps you just want the information for later. That list is printed out and waiting when you get home. Transparent blogging not only has too many applications to count but it's demographic is virtually everyone since you don't actually know you're blogging.

Think of Google as one big community blog. Of course, it's not a blog in the traditional sense but we all know that Google collects just about all the information that goes through it. Google is allowing you to 'blog' on it's services and it returns information depending on what you've blogged before. It's mostly a private blog with most of the information it gathers not available in raw form to just anyone. The reason you didn't know you were blogging is because Google is a transparent blog - the first of it's kind, surely. Not the last. Not even close.