Predicting 2006

Alex Barnett provides this list of pointers to 2006 predictions. I’ve quoted two below. Do they conflict, or do they give the same message to different ways?

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Predictions for 2006, Shel Israel: “The number of bloggers worldwide will exceed 150 million”

No Blogs Next Year, ClickZ.com: “The End of blogs as we know them”