What will the blogosphere be like in a year?

Since I'll be away from the blogosphere for the next year (starting in 12 days), it would seem reasonabe to ask what the blogosphere might be like in a year.  Some suggested questions:

1. How will Goggle's strategy evolve?
2. Will more people know about and use Atom, or fewer?
3. How will Blogger evolve?
4. What is Microsoft plotting even as we speak?
5. Will blogging be simpler, or more complex?
6. Will new PCs ship with a blog all set up and ready to go?
7. What will the A-list look like?  Will there even be an A-list?
8. What kind of shakeouts will have occurred?
9. What *new* blogs will rise to the top of the heap?
10. What scandals will have occurred?
11. What mind-boggling blogging innovations will have occured?
12. What forms of "web feed viruses" (or "RSS viruses") will have evolved and what will the response look like?

What else will likely transpire while I play the role of the blogosphere's Rip Van Winkle?

-- Jack Krupansky