While I realize that a question like this will tend to be a little vague, I’d be interested in hearing what BloggingNotes readers might consider the established blog that’s going to break out in the next 12 months and become a niche leader, or is there something that’s only been around for a month or two that everyone’s going to start followi

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Apparently this is the week for articles with "2008" in the title. With so many floating around I decided to pick just two to go on the 5 for Friday list—and they're good ones. I'd like to welcome Dustin Brewer to the list this week. His list of Digg-like social networks for designers is a great one and I've enjoyed his other posts as we

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Japan has become a very predictble country. Earthquakes, typhoons, changing prime ministers and poor sporting performances have become annual events. In this post, I've written up ten predictions for Japan in the year 2008 which I'm pretty confident will come true. For example, I think 2008 will be the year artificially intelligent robots f

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Quick, how many people knew in late 2006 that Facebook was going to turn into the monster that it has? That it would have blogs dedicated solely to making money on Facebook? A few probably saw it coming, but while Facebook’s stock has been on the rise for the probably longer than a year, 2007 has to go down as the “Year of Facebook”. Before t

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Chris, from the Amateur Traveler podcast, kicks off his new travel news blog with a series of predictions for how travel will change in 2008. What will happen to the passenger's bill of rights? Flight delays? Global Warming? The every growing cruise ship? Airport Security? And what about the tragic story of Robbie Barnsworth and Flight 304 f

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