I read Brian's comment about friends giving up blogging - and all I can think about are the hundres of blogs that have registered at blogs4God that were reminicent of the seeds scattered on the road.
So many were cast on the rocks & weeds of punditry that of course they withered and died.
Me, I avoid all that and instead have been enjoying myself over on HealYourChurchWebSite.com - which uses blogging as a mechanism for "Teaching, rebuking, correcting & training in righteous web design."
Point is - I think if we would look at blogging in light of what we can do in terms of ministry and service, rather than shaking our collective fists at the air - we may be able to grow deep furtive roots that mean something in the long term, long after our blogs and bodies are gone.