So in my last Asides, I kinda threw out a bone on engaging folks on how we can make the blogging experience…well…an experience. This whole writing online thing, for all superfluous deviations from its seemingly honest original intents and non-commercial purposes, has gotten a little stale. With blogs springing up at an alarming rate of one blog per half-second every day, the amount of voices contributing to an already deafening scream of nothingness is increasing to the point where it will have to reach critical mass at some point.

I was really thinking about it this year with the Black Weblog Awards and seeing the nominees come through. It does make me wonder what the future of the Black blogosphere will be in just a year's time. Right now, I can't even call it. I'd like to think that there will be more niche blogs on topics other than celebrity gossip. Maybe there will be more than two Black blog awards in existence (the other, of course, being the Black Web Awards). Hell, maybe there will even be a Black blogging conference with panels, speakers and advertisers.

One thing I remember George Kelly telling me in an IM conversation was how there is more than one Black blogosphere, and that there are actually several of them all colliding at different points and providing different experiences. Knowing that, I can think that there will have to be more than one solution as to where the future of this whole blogging thing is headed for Black bloggers (past, present and future).

So I'm asking you…what is the future of the Black blogosphere?

Please, leave your comments and let's get a dialogue going. To that effect, I'm leaving this post here until I start seeing some comments. There's far too many eyes that pass through this page to not have some sort of opinion on where blogging should go, so start talking.

Now…back to studying. Speak up!