Blogging to peak in 2007 -- Gartner report

Ars Technica has an article up about how industry research firm Gartner estimates that blogging will reach its peak of 100 million sometime within the next year. Most people who create blogs abandon them at some point, and the estimation is that there are currently 200-million "ex-bloggers". Also shrinking is the growth rate of the blogosphere. Although it is now 100 times larger than it was four years ago, it's doubling in size now only once every 7.5 months, compared to until now having doubled twice a year -- or once every six months.