Kind of strange how emotion, depression, dissatisfaction, can become a trend on the Web. I think it's only natural, though. The people who really birthed the whole blogging phenomenon are obsessive personalities. Don't get me wrong, that's a good thing, and God knows my personality is entirely too obsessive.
Obsessive personalities are what drive innovation and creation more than anything else.
It's thanks to those obsessive personalities that blogs and personal web publishing came back into vogue over the last two years. But just because the bigwigs and their followers are taking a break from things doesn't mean that blogs, online journals, etc. are any less important or less relevant. It just means that everyone's starting to find a balance in their life. I have a buttload of web sites and something gets updated almost daily on any of them, but I feel like I have a pretty good balance. I blog pretty much daily, but if I feel like taking ten days off, I do so without announcement and without guilt.