[unalone]

The New York Times is a century and a half old. Techcrunch hasn't even passed half a decade. Blogging's ten years old. Give it another ten and where do you think it'll be?

Blogs already cover politics and technology more thoroughly than papers. I'll bet webcomics are catching up to newspaper funnies in popularity. By 2019, there won't be anything in newspapers that you can't get better online.

How is TechCrunch not a blog? Are the rules that if you're able to find advertisers and make money you're not a blog anymore? Because they don't make a magazine, they don't have print, and they publish exclusively online. That's exactly what a blog is.

[akkartik]

I agree with that sentiment, but beware of directly comparing age. Blogging will likely rise and fall faster than newspapers.

[unalone]

I only half agree. What we think of as blogging will fall faster, but the idea of independent electronic publication will stick around longer than newspapers did. Flexibility trumps everything.

[njharman]

> Give it another ten and where do you think it'll be?

With pet.com?