The Long Trail - dissected -

Whether it is a tail or a 'trail'... this post is very informative... as is the blog itself. Spend time... learn stuff.

Naked Conversations: The Long Trail: "First the metaphor part. Picture, if you will, a comet. The front of it is brilliant and solid and stunning. It's brightness makes it perceived ac cross many light years. Behind it there is a very long trail. It doesn't shine so brightly. It doesn't get the oohs and ahs of the front end of the comet, but it is vastly larger. It contains more particle matter and is in a great many ways more enduring that the front of the comet which is destined inevitable to burn itself out.

Blogging is right now exists exclusively in the glorious front end. The trail is just forming. It is filled with businesses and people in all sorts of places and of a great many ilks. They are the future of blogging. They may not burn as brightly, but they will endure for a very long time."