There, I said it. I don’t mean that they’re actually that old, I don’t think many are over 50 and most probably don’t even crack the 40 mark, but the question stands, where are the young A-List bloggers?

Lets first define “Young” as below 30. There don’t seem to be that many out there. I think there may be a couple of reasons. One is that we just don’t have the industry experience that makes people want to listen to what we have to say. Who’s going to really care about what some 24 year old punk has to say. He was graduating from high school when the tech bubble was in full swing.

The other reason is that I think the Young, tech savvy people are out building things and they don’t have time to blog! Look at the founders of Digg (28), MySpace (29), Gtalkr (24),Blogger (28): they’re all young. I know there are entrepreneurs out there who aren’t young, but that’s to be expected.

It’s too bad there aren’t more popular young bloggers. There’s a lot of untapped energy in the young blogsphere. We’re creative, energetic, and sometimes we’re too stupid to know better. If old people tell us it can’t be done, we laugh and go make it happen. Inexperience is a virtue because when you’re inexperienced, the sky is the limit. It’s like we’re disobeying the laws of business physics, and that’s what makes the web grow.

So are there young bloggers out there making a splash that you like to read?

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