Social Networks Are The New Broadcasters

...and they will broadcast to (and from!) those always-on, always-within-reach and utterly personalized mobile devices fka mobile phones, not just to or from computers.

Blogs will amalgamate with, and integrate into social networks.

Personal publishing will evolve to include entire ‘me-casting’ toolboxes. My taste, my list, my ears, my audience, my artists, my network i.e.... you guessed, it, my record label. Another 9-12 months and we will have the the first BlogJ signing the first hot new artist to an agency-type agreement.

Music blogs will explode with the advent of the new music fat rate. Sites like [fiction alert] Quadrogum will rule, and blog aggregators like UeberFeed will become the next Infiniti Radio.

Widgets will become as common as email (which will fade away).

Hundreds of niche-obsessed BlogJs will emerge, becoming trusted opinion leaders that will draw 10s if not 100s of 1000s of networked music fans who will discover new music this way - strictly by lifestyle i.e. genre and sub-sub-sub-sub genre. Much like it used to be in music-television; coolness and credibility will rule here.

Those former MP3 pirates and stream-rippers are the new Clive Davis’s and Ahmet Ertegun's - they have the ears for the new artists and a direct pipeline (read: feed) to perfectly matched audiences, around the globe.

BlogJs will open clubs and spaces where their 'readers' can meet, both in RL (Real Life) as well as virtually. Think [fiction alert] HypdaBar. The [fiction alert] nipho9-5 will be their weapon of choice, fully loaded with a 20 mega-pixel camera and HD video recorder, quadraphonic real-time sound remixer, 10+ ways of always-on connectivity, 2.5 terrabyte of flash storage, and a built-in image projector.