Pressure to blog. Traffic to the Chicago Sun-Times website is off 25% since Roger Ebert took a medical leave for surgery. Michelle Malkin’s traffic dropped by 80,000 (I assume that’s daily) when she took a vacation. You stop blogging for a few weeks and people desert in droves. Are we headed for an epidemic of blogger burnout?

Will newspapers even be around in 10 years? I expect so, but the number of people reading them will get smaller and smaller. The average viewer of network evening news is 60. Yikes. Bad news for newspapers is bad news for us all.

HeyLetsGo.com is an interesting evolution of social networks. It’s kind of a regionalized MySpace.com, with an excellent collection of local happenings and tools to find friends in the area. This is where social networks will go, I believe. There’ll be a few massive international sites and then a lot of local and special-interest variations.