Eric Weaver, jumping on the “let’s make some cool predictions for 2006″ bandwagon, makes some interesting arguments for the future of internet usage. He is a marketer and his blog is all about advertising, yet he makes a couple of remarks that grab my interest.

For example:

BLOG HYPE IS OVER. Too many people blogging with little interesting to say (case in point!). Corporate blogs will continue to grow as companies look for inexpensive, low-effort ways to speak to customers. Bloggers will continue to have a say in politics, news reporting and religious debate, but a huge upsurge in blog growth? I’m thinking not so much.

Well, at least religious blogs will continue, or else I might as well finish my thesis right now.

Other predictions include the effect of anti-spam laws, a refreshing of producer-consumer relations and more brilliant TV advertising coming from Australia (if you live in country Victoria you’d be thinking “Wha…?”).