Happy Blogging Birthday - the Morgan PR Blog celebrates being two years old today!

Hurrah! The Morgan PR blog has reached the ripe old age of two years - and this is the 359th posting. How does that sound to you?

Well, statistic vary wildly, but a common one I've seen suggests that almost half of all new blogs will be dormant or abandoned within three months and certainly very few of the blogs that I have followed at launch ever lasted.

Will Blogging Really Peak in 2007?

The BBC led with a dubious story yesterday, quoting technical 'gurus' Gartner as saying blogging will peak next year... Really?

As many blogs as there are out there, I cannot honestly believe that they are going to doing anything but continue to blossom. Some will flare and then die, like an ill-lit match in a thunderstorm, but others will flourish and become essential components of our every more personalised web experience.

Also, surely as technology advances we will simply migrate on to every more advanced versions of blogging. I already know how to post a blog entry from my mobile telephone (Admittedly I have had no requirement to do this!) and presumably the technology already exists for me to post a video entry too. Any future development of the blogging environment will encourage more people to lauch their own and leave others playing catch up or making the most of thoroughly established technology. Sort of belated adopters.

Before you get carried away and admire my foresight, the Internet Psychologist, Graham Jones has been saying much the same on his own blog and a quick Google search reveals that many are dismissing the story.

Found: Blogging Tips that Really Help!

I have fond a terrific blog that will be embraced by those of you who find this whole blogging malarkey a challenge at times.

Visit Copyblogger and read his hugely helpful posting 'The Five Essential Elements of an Influencial Blog' It is just one of a plethora of articles aimed squarely at those of us trying to grow our presence in the blogosphere and I'm learning plenty from it, which must surely tell you something!

Copyblogger is an American guy, Brian Clark, and he has been doing this since the days when we all thought Amazon was either a big river in South America or a mythical warrior race of women. So he does know what he is talking about!