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Fast Company Magazine Predicts Death Of Bloggers

Feb 26, 2006
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This is not the first or last time that I will hallow the virtues of NY Post Page Six. Today, under their signature WE HEAR… headline, they report:
THAT the 10th-anniversary issue of Fast Company magazine predicts the demise of bloggers, auto mechanics, Indian call-center operators, TV schedulers and Wall Street researchers in its “Six Jobs That Won’t Exist in 2016″ article …

OMG. Someone is boldly predicting the death of our society! The four things that when through my mind when reading this were:

1) I will not stand for this anti-Blogism. My ancestors endured enough persecution and I will not allow my generation to be the victim of bandwidth discrimination.

2) Wow! Fast Company is still around! I have not read a copy since 2002. Anyone in the same boat as me? Fast Company imploded during the Internet Bubble and will never reclaim its glory. I do however give them credit for spurning off another cool site.

3) Fast Company predicts the final blow to blogs yet their Fast Company blog is prominently featured on their homepage. Is this then a suicidal prediction? (see image below)

4) If FC were really being objective, they’d also predict the demise of Fast Company Magazine. Not for any future date though. Rather, their prediction would have to be made in retrospect, as Fast Company Magazine in fact died in the early 2000′s.

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  • Brad Wilshire

    Cmon Shmuster! Fast Company is a great magazine right alongside Business 2.0 as a forward thinking, insightful magazine that features companies that focus on innovating.

    While their prediction may have been a bit off, there is no need to bash a great read.

  • http://www.revenews.com/shmuly/ Shmuly Tennenhaus

    Good point. I must have taken one too many "bashing supplements" this morning :-)
    FYI, this is an interesting Business Week article on their financial woes. They are getting hurt from a print sense…and personally, I think their online presence/blog is their only hope for the future. That's why I was so taken aback by their prediction.

  • http://www.business-blog.com Jim Kukral

    I was going to write about this last week, but I have written too many pieces about other people predicting the death of blogs, so I figured I'd pass.

    Predictable doom and gloom.

  • Jonathan (Trust)

    Just an article to sell magazines. Since blogging is still hot, why not say it's going to die. Blogs, message boards, social networks are all just ways people communicate/get together on the internet. None will die out, some will be successful, some won't, just like most things in life. I'm sure there'll be enhancements along the way and even some mergings between them all.