My very cute boyfriend sent an article to me from one of my favorite tech sources - Wired.

  http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay

In the article, Paul Boutin (correspondent for the Silicon Valley gossip site Valleywag) posits that, like many other sources of information, blogging has been taken over by professional writers and marketers, drowning out the voices of the "real people" we used to love to peruse. Even long-standing bloggists have withdrawn from the blogosphere and have gone on to the next new thing.