I was asked by a young public relations professional last week what I thought of blogs.

My immediate response was there is so much information available to us on any given day, how can we support the proliferation of blogs. In other words, so many blogs, so little time to read them.

On any given day, I read two to four newspapers and receive daily email updates with links to relevant articles from four other publications, email news digests (which include links to blog postings) from four news and industry sources and news alerts sporadically from several outlets alerting me to “breaking news.” And, of course, I try to catch at least one radio news report and one local TV newscast everyday. Oh, and also do my work.

I admit, some days, I skip a newspaper and delete some of the email sources without reading them. And I read some things more thoroughly than others.

What good is a blog if no one reads it? And, that doesn’t take into account the time it takes to write and keep up a blog.

While blogs may be the “in” thing, I predict that in a year’s time, we will see many go by the wayside as audiences gravitate to the most useful, most credible sources and as many of the thousands (could it be millions?) of bloggers out there tire of spending their time pontificating.