7. By the same token, have you noticed any changes in the attitude or makeup of the blogging community itself over the past 5 years?

We have become less of a community. It used to be that saying that you were a “blogger” meant something, you were a part of a secret club with a decoder ring and meetings in your friend Sal’s tree house. These days almost everyone is a “blogger” and the delineation between someone who gets 5 visitors a year and 50,000 visitors an hour is a little blurry. I think that’s a good thing because, the faster we walk away from the label blogger, the faster we can get down to the real business of producing valuable content for the people who are looking to read it.