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I humbly suggest that editors who force me to click on seven different pages to read an article SHOULD be extinct. - Mack D. Male

Blogging is already extinct. - Robert Scoble

He'll be retired by then. - Cem Catikkas

No more software engineers in 2016? Are these guys on crack? - Gavin

@Gavin, even more hilarious -- no auto mechanics in 8 years because cars "run on software". So why are people moaning about the price of gas? Stick a floppy in the tank! - Sprague D

1999 called, they want their horrible navigation back. FC really needs to improve the usability of their site. - Devlin Dunsmore from twhirl

concur with Devlin, awful navigation. Ironic though that FC is criticizing bloggers for making snarky comments when the commentary they are making is snarky itself - Duncan Riley

Blogging is a 'job'? Who knew... :) RT http://tinyurl.com/52ss4v - Rotkäpchen

Fitting that Scoble gets to captain the Titanic once again. He's probably seeing this on his IPhone at the helm... - Mark Forman

Rokapchen Blogging is only a job if you get paid...so I hear. ;) - Jeremiah Owyang

Would Scoble blog if on the Titantic? - Fred Grott

I thought blogs died 2 years ago or something. read that on a blog somewhere. - David Wescott

This is getting ridiculous. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

I think there's a difference btw blogs dying and having the title blogger. blogging is already integrated into so many different job functions. Who knows, in 2016 the term blogger could be extinct because it will be synonamous with reporter, or marketer, or CEO... - Adam

I blog for my a particular constituency of my company's market; just started doing it, someone had to - Shannon

There will always be jobs for people who author content, though the title "Blogger" may be subsumed into various roles. Truly professional bloggers (no, not really an oxymoron) may simply be thought of as writers, analysts or journalists, while the rest of us will remain the amateur pundits we are today. - Barry Graubart

I've never been paid for it, but plenty of paying jobs have come out of it. - Rick Grant

I think the future holds more jobs to become remote, then corporate, we're already seeing this, and it saves corporation tons of money, including the employee...example > employee travel w/ this gas situation - petes2cents.com

My blogging and social networking participation doesn't appear in my job description, yet it has absolutely contributed to the success of my business. I spend an hour a day on it, and the payback is more than any other hour of the day in terms of direct/indirect contact with my customers. - Ed Brill

I just got the VP at my company into blogging and he's hooked. He's getting feedback from customer's in the form of comments and is gaining leads from search results. I don't think blogging will die in eight years. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

Content creation will always exist and connecting with community never stops. I blog because I want to and its had big benefits on my visibility inside and outside of the company. - Alex

You can have blogging as a job? - Dave Peck

lol @ Britney - Shawn Farner from twhirl