So the game of the week must be 'Which mainstream bloggers are using content generation tools?'

And the next big thing in startups is going to be filtering out algorithmically generated content.

Thus leading to a coevolutionary arms race where generators and filters are getting better and better until mere humans are outclassed. Automated comment bots and semantic maps of key demographic groups become dominant, generations of marketing lore gets coded into verbiage generators leading to an end state where the entire universe of online discourse is generated by Robert Scoble pushing a button, repeatedly.

I've read quite a number of blog posts recently that have been written in English that's seemed strangely clunky and unnatural, in a style very similar to the intro text on the Datapresser home page.

I initially put it down to posts being authored by people for whom English is a second language, but they're US-based blogs. This initially dodgy-sounding idea starts to seem plausible.

I haven't read that blog before, but now scrolling down through some recent entries, it's all very clunky English. On the other hand, the person writing it is named Ernst-Jan Pfauth.

The personal subscription $25CDN is "limited" to 500 posts/day. Even TC doesn't post that much.

I think the real discussion is moving to Twitter-like mediums (short and quick - who has time for blogging). Looking at Techmeme, it looks like a lot of the discussion isn't really - just rehashing (no time for analysis)