http://socialtimes.disqus.com/enMon, 14 Jul 2008 11:09:48 -0000http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/07/the-state-of-tech-blogs/#comment-1575037<i>What became clear almost immediately was the little bubble that I exist in.</i><br><br>I figured that this was a universally recognized trend in the Valley. When you live on the leading edge of the tech, you'll always be riding these little bubbles. This is true of new programming languages, new hardware and new methodologies in general. Tons of technologies will die in their little bubbles before they reach "the masses".<br><br><i>So if the various online social activities I’m involved in don’t really build much value outside of personal gratification, where is the value?</i><br><br>Your value is information processing. Somebody needs to live "in the bubble" and "report back" to the real world every once in a while. You don't always need to be "first to the punch", you just need to be the "definitive resource".<br><br>If you can separate good tech from bad tech, if you can identify <i>where</i> each tech belongs in various industries, then <b>your brain</b> is ridiculously valuable.<br><br><i>So when all is said and done ... who will really end up the winners?</i><br><br>The ones who can actually leverage and manage this morass of information. The job done by Tech Crunch will soon become an "information commodity", just like hardware is now a "commodity" and software flirts with that status. What's not a commodity (and likely won't be) is the technology that converts information in to dollars. Right now, that technology is solely stored in the human brain.<br><br>Convert data into dollars and <b>you</b> end up the winner.Gates VPMon, 14 Jul 2008 11:09:48 -0000http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/07/the-state-of-tech-blogs/#comment-1575040Nice post Nick. fwiw I don't think consolidation among the leading tech blogs will happen. Each has its own strong points and focus. PaidContent is a great example, it found a profitable niche and executed extremely well on the business side. That's what many of us are trying to do. Also there's the small matter of egos...Richard MacManusSun, 13 Jul 2008 04:13:09 -0000http://www.socialtimes.com/2008/07/the-state-of-tech-blogs/#comment-1575039And after all that consolidation, there will still be some great independent bloggers fighting against the trend. Just be yourself.Louis GraySun, 13 Jul 2008 01:00:54 -0000