YOU KNOW THE GUY who waited in line on June 29th? He is the same guy whose homepage is Digg.com and wants to throw a party every time Google announces a new API. This guy proves that Baggy jeans, sport cars, UGG boots and elegant coffee blends are no longer the trends that impact the world we live in. Now the trends that define our world live online. This is the arena where we connect with friends, new and old; share emotions, be they of happiness or sorrow; discover the world, of politics or celebrity gossip; and create our legacy. The Internet has harbored one trend after another, fostering the evolution of life and allowing us to make our lives and that of our companions richer more enjoyable experiences.

Users drive these trends deciding which will evolve and which will collect dust as advertisers are riding the coattails trying to keep up. But regardless the nature of a digital trend, advertisers are studying, probing, watching and reacting as trends form and evolve. Major trends from new web applications, to redefining social networks, to blurring the lines between home movies and viral advertising campaigns shape the Internet and will be gone as quick as they emerged, but will leave the Internet over and again, reinvented.

The most recent trend that has come to my attention is this whole blogging phenomenon. Not in the normal sense that everybody should have a blog, rather that myself is loosing time and inspiration to blog. Call this a placeholder post if you will because I am simply blogging for the sake of blogging with nothing particularly profound to say. I am ironically posting about my break from posting just to post.

Let us think about bloggers’ habits. Not in regards to their content, but their posting schedule and comment reactions and their person coming through their blog. How often does that happen? How often can we read a post that foreshadows future events in our favorite bloggers digital life?