Let me explain – you ask what happens when strong cluster points evolve on the social web (and yes, Facebook is and it’s a black hole to some extent – contrast this with the extreme of distributed microblogging like status.net – a whole other interpretation of living on the web …). Walled gardens may thrive a while but I see eventually more distributed engagement of users, spreading across the web, and it’s therefore we need open platforms, data mobility and things like “comment syndication protocols”.

So, and partly answering your question – blogs will stay as a personal homebase on the net. But they will evolve too, adding more open & distributed features like collecting all my comments on the web (like Backtype on Steroids, think Salmon), or acting as a gateway to other places people engage in (see the buzz widget on the right, these days I am writing a lot there …).

My two cents.

But the right tools (see the buzz discourse too, please) can add plenty of muscle to single curators’ capabilities.

Then, and probably the task at hand in internal community management, collaboration facilitation et al. is to lay the tasks of curation, community care and so on into the self-organized hands of the community itself? Thus collaborative curation emerges, which may be the answer to questions of scaleability?

But I’ve learned that most people are focusing on a small number of networks (Facebook, sigh) and those that aren’t have powerful filter capabilities. If those professionals feel overwhelmed we mustn’t feel sorry

Oh and re:buzz – great to still have you around!

back to buzz… i will try to think about it again.
ref: http://www.google.com/buzz/assbach/4EHeNocc68x/schaue-hier-%C3%BCbrigens-nur-noch-sehr-selten-rein

So I guess somebody regular would be 1. perplexed and 2. thinking of us as “madmen living off and generating noise”