Text style blogging that has become the everyday common expectation of the way blogging is, has been going steady now for the better part of ten years. Now we have things like Twitter, which many refer to as micro-blogging and is, regardless of things like Twhirl, still a text based medium. Even FriendFeed, which is more of an aggregator but many people seem to consider yet another style of micro-blogging, is text based even though you can add pictures or video to your stream.
For a while podcasting was heralded as the next big thing to take over from text-based blogging but it has had more of an up and down acceptance factor. It hasn’t replaced traditional blogging by any stretch of the imagination, although it is recently seeing a resurgence of popularity. 
When podcasting came along and started making its way out of a very small niche it was proclaimed by many to be the next generation of blogging, but to date it hasn’t proved to be any threat at all.
As anything to do with technology there are always bright shiny new things that captivate us and get us rushing around like silly little fools telling anyone who will listen that a paradigm shift is going to happen – we are going to find our information flow radically changed forever because something new is on the horizon. Such was the case with video blogging, which really gained almost mainstream attention with iJustine and 24 hour video lifecasting. We were being told that things in the blogosphere and the Internet in general would never be the same again.
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