Gartner foresees blogging plateau

Analysts at Gartner predict that blogging will peak in the first half of 2007

Analyst giant Gartner has issued its annual predictions for the coming year. Its forecasts for 2007 include the suggestion that blogging will peak in the first half of 2007.

Gartner suggested that the peak would be reached at about 100 million bloggers, and noted that there are already about 200 million former bloggers.

Among other predictions, the firm said that by 2008, almost half of datacentres will not have necessary power and cooling capacity. The problem will be mitigated by about 2010, it argued.