For those of you nay-sayers who were thinking that the "blogging bubble" is going to burst, well, you're wrong .. and right.

ClickZ and WebProNews have both reported on today's Pew Internet & American Life Project.  While WebProNews is a little more tongue-in-cheek, ClickZ talks about the real meat of the issue, broadband access is pushing content generation:

Forty-eight million American adults have contributed some form of user-generated content on the Internet, it found. That's 35 percent of Internet users. Of those adults who have posted content on the Web, 73 percent, or 31 million, have a broadband connection at home.

"[The Web is] shifting now to user-generated content; it shows people engaging with the Internet in a number of different ways in their lives," said John Horrigan, associate director of research at Pew Internet & American Life Project. "It shows that people are pretty interested in using the technology to put something of themselves on the Internet, not just pull down information from the Internet."

Okay, so clearly blogging nay-sayers have it wrong, but how to they also have it right?  Well we're moving beyond blogging.  We're moving into a realm of true user-generated media/content.  Pictures, video, text, art, whatever.  So, no, blogging is, perhaps waning ... but only because the medium, which is the message after all, is evolving into a whole new world.

And I, for one, am really happy to be on the train.

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