I got tell ya, I just love that Flowtown site; from the content to the design, there’s always a great take away plus some wickedly awesome infographics! The talent there is just endless and a pleasure to come across. Damn, I almost wish I owned that fabulous town ;).

Obviously, my incessant tooting of them would mean for you to go check them out – and regularly.

As you well know, I’m a sucker for kick-ass infographics and Flowtown always manages to create some excellent ones that pertain to Social Media. And this particular one is no different.

What once started as a kind of online journal where people could share their personal expressions and random ramblings to no one or a few has now transitioned into one of the most powerful and vibrant communication mediums on the internet.

Many of us often refer to blogs instead of the mainstream media to get our daily news. For others, it’s become their part-time or full-time job and a main source of income through ads, affiliate links and so forth.

Think about it:

If you want the latest news on Technology – where would you go first? The Tech section of The Guardian or the New York Times or a site like TechCrunch, Gizmodo and Mashable? I would do the latter.

This cool graphic from Flowtown illustrates an amusing yet insightful time line of where bloggers began and where they (we) are today. Have we evolved to reach our full potential or is there more? It even goes so far as to try and predict the future of blogging as – “micro-blogging bloggers”.

Either way, blogging is not a fad and is here to stay. Where and how do you fit in here? What kind of blogger are you?

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