Now that the 'four more years' are confirmed, how will this affect the blogosphere? Here's what I think is gonna happen:
President Bush will start his own blog on Diary-X, because it's easy to understand and doesn't have trackbacks.
Free services like Blogger will grow tremendously, as a result of the überattention bloggers have received for past few weeks on mainstream media i.e. CNN Election blogs.
Wonkette, DailyKOS and other liberal blogs like Atrios will receive much bashing for atleast the next few weeks. Democrats will say, "we're quiting", whereas the conservatives will simply laugh and make jokes about Kerry and his long chin.
John Kerry will buy out pMachine and drop Expression Engine's price to $9.99, to punish the Trotts for endorsing Howard Dean.
CIA will finally learn about Iran's secret 'weapons of mass cultural take over', with the help of an army of Persian blogs. Iran's excuse at the UN, "we're tired of throwing stones at disco going hipsters!" and "the chador can be sexy too!".
A year before the next election, SixApart and MoveOn.org will come out with a special edition of MovableType called "MoveOnType", will templates and features specially designed to promote the democratic cause, like daily torrent links for 'The Daily Show'.
European bloggers will end technical discussions with their US counterparts with a one liner, "what do you guys know? you re-elected Bush!"
Little Green Footballs, will become bigger than what it is today (if that is possible!). Also, the comment on that site will become more rascist (if that is possible!).
Liberal blogging from Canada will grow many folds, since a lot of US bloggers will cross the border and bash the President from under the maple leafs.
Instapundit in collaboration with Charles Johnson will come out with his own blogging tool called "UltraCons", with builtin sidebars from Fox News and BillOReilly.com.
The photoblog with the most favorites at photoblogs.org will be the one covering protesters during the Gleneagles Summit in Scotland.
For the first three years, people will act as normal human beings, focusing on real life issues, which means that most general blogs (like this one!) will be highly boring.
At the end of the four years, blogging will be bigger than both hollywood and video games combined. And on November 5th 2008, the day after the presidential elections, blog stocks will go up double on news that the Republican candidate is projected to lose, because the Justice department under the Democrats won't pursue it's investigation into the blogging industries campaign donations.