The fad stage [of blogging] is over
That seems to be generally true; while the number of posts has most definitely gone down in most of the blogs I'm following, what remains is a relatively new and open medium that gives a podium to so many capable, willing and knowledgeable people. Not in a 140 character haiku, but in an unrestricted form. At the same time, I'm saddened by how many good, even great, writers have remained silent for so long (or write hundreds of quasi-sensical 'tweets'); while it shouldn't be the case, it turns out that being a fad had its advantages, in that it helped a large number of people discover and participate in it. If anything, I'm hopeful that the adulthood of blogs will increase, even marginally, the signal to noise ratio.