So where are blogs going?

In the past two weeks in my social media class we been talking back and forth on the topic of where is social media, (blogs), going, and how much longer will they be around and will they eventually take over traditional media?
We were assigned the chapter readings of McConnell, B. & Huba, J. (2007). Citizen Marketers: When People are the Message, [Kaplan Publishing.] In the readings it discussed the shifts of publishing, since the days of Guttenberg, and how with the birth of blogs everyone is a publisher (old news now because blogs seem to feel like they been here forever), but the new questions that arises is, will the change keep going, to the point that traditional forms of media will be wiped out by new social media? (blogs, podcast, etc).

“We become what we behold, We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”-Marshall McLuhan. This statement is a true reflection to how we interact with each other today; which, is mostly on these social media applications (Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc). Less and less do people of the younger generations call each other; instead they just chat in the Facebook chat, or twitter to one another. Even cell phones are used for texting and those with smart phones surf the web and use Facebook. So the more we create of these new apps the more they’ll be “shaping” the way we communicate and do everyday things.

I feel Blogs are one of those things that go up and down in popularity, but I don’t see Blogs ever stopping or even taking over any other forms of media. Blogs are good for certain things, but not for all. We as a society are going to always have a need for professional journalist and publishers. We need news, even though Blogs provide an array of information, it more based off the opinions of those whom are Blogging and not on true facts. You’ll rarely come a across a Blog that has in-depth research on a topic. So traditional media well not be going anywhere any time soon; however, the way they deliver their information will be changing (online news papers, twitter news, etc). These change that will be coming up are not anything new. People have always being changing, and the ways things are done are also changing. We live in a consist state of change. If you ever really noticed how nothing in life is static, everything is always moving and evolving into something new and different. So for all those traditional forms of media, they’ll still be there, just in a new form. Everything is an extension of something before it.
So where are Blogs going? I think Blogs are become more and more professional and less about “what I did today…” type of feel. People are actually writing more insightful information, and trying their best to execute their most professional writing skills.

Question: where do you think blogs are heading?