A question which must have occurred to most of us: Is Blogging a Fad? has been answered pretty well by Arnold Kling. My own two cents worth on the subject. The boundaries for technofads can be set on the one hand by CB radio (one of the first big fads) and email (clearly not a fad). Of the currently hot technologies, I’d say SMS is more like CB radio – an inherently limited technology, with lots of in-group jargon, but no real use that can’t be better served by boring things like voicemail. Blogging is, I think, more like email – easy to use, and with a range of possible uses that still leaves a lot of room for new ideas. The odd bits of jargon (e.g. memes) are like those 🙂 things in email -fun if you’re into it, and easy to ignore if you’re not.