I think so. Even though PFBlogs.org is currently tracking 601 blogs! 
But how many more bloggers can PF handle? I mean how much can an audience take about 0% balance transfers, “OMG they just cancelled Citi Dividends card,” I have this much debt and need to pay it off, housing bubble is popping, saving, spending, don’t do this, do that, invest now!, don’t invest now!, and frugality, blah blah blah. Everytime I’m about to buy something, I imagine Blogging Away Debt screaming giving me the nasty glare, don’t do it!!! (Sorry Tricia, just had to pick on somebody 
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Well, last night, as I was lying in bed, brain going full steam, as often happens right before I go to sleep, I realize, “Yes! PF Blogging is big enough.” Why? Because every single thing we do in our lives has some link to finances. Whether we like it or not, in the 21st century, money talks, regardless of where you live.
Whether it’s about cooking, travelling, sleeping, fishing, watching TV, there is always a financial perspective of the conversation that’s available. It’s just a matter of finding it and discussing it. Each person has a unique financial perspective, so I do believe personal finance is big enough for so many bloggers. Blog on blog fellow blogging mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and friends! Just don’t forget, it’s personal finance.
Credit MoneyBlogNetwork forums for bringing up this topic. You can check out the actual thread here. Sign up while you’re there! You get to see the behind the scenes action of the pf blogging community.
I don’t scream….I give a nasty glare….
LOL
I was actually thinking about this recently. Not this specifically, but along these lines. I thought how cool it is that there are only a few hundred PF blogs and that I know most of the major ones, and that many of them even know about me and my little blog.
Then I thought, wait, how do we know that out of the hundreds of millions in the English speaking world with access to the internet that we are the only PF blogs? We, five or six hundred. What if there is an alternate universe of pf blogs? What if there is an aggregator called financialplanningblogs.org, or fpblogs.org (don’t bother, it doesn’t exist). You know what I mean?
Actually, I doubt it. I think we’re it. Our friends like Amanda, Flexo and Jim featured in BusinessWeek. The MBN, NCN Network, Under 30, etc. It’s kind of weird isn’t it?
When you think of it that way, it’s shocking that there are ONLY 601 PFblogs!
Also, off topic, but Why College Football is better than the NFL!
The large number of blogs means I don’t get to read all the postings that come through the pfblogs aggregator. There are simply too many postings per day. So it turns out to be somewhat random as to what I read i.e. whatever is at the top of the list when I take a peek.
Also, rest assured that not all financial related blogs are being accepted. My own submission didn’t qualify so presumably there are a bunch of sites being rejected all of the time.
For my part, I think that there can never be too many bloggers because I really like reading about other people’s financial lives (I’m voyeuristic like that.) What we NEED though are more bloggers who are actually good writers, and who are interesting to read.. too many people think they’re interesting and they’re not.
Plus a lot of people drop out after a while. But as long as new bloggers are interesting, personable, and easy to read, I think they’ll find an audience.
Well… seeing as I have THREE sites of my own, perhaps I am contributing to the old blog-bloat? YIKES!
…I think that it is like anything else… there were a very few at the beginning, and then the next wave came along (this was about when I started) and now we are in the midst of the third major wave of new pf bloggers… the creation of pfblogs.org and .com helped to spread the gospel, so to speak, and i think that more people got excited…
i too get tire of reading the same… old.. things… but, you have to realize that not everyone reads all of the blogs… in fact, most people may only read 1 or 2… hopefully the ones they read are helpful, and help spread the link love around…
personally, when i created the network, i was hoping that more “established” pf bloggers would join… but i have come to realize that the nature of the network usually encourages newer bloggers to become members…
great post…
NCN
Tricia, Changed
LMD, Wow, cool thought. There are probably other PF communities out there…wonder when we’ll somehow connect…I wonder how many blogs are out there on their own too…
I agree with a lot of those points on that list, btw. But college doesn’t have fantasy football!
ETF, I agree. I do the same thing…I rarely visit one blog regularly. There’s a handful, but it’s because I’m following the person more than the content itself. I’m curious as to what you’re referring to when you say you weren’t accepted…email me…
Kira, I guess that’s the double edged sword of blogging. If someone has the passion, I think the writing can come after…Are you saying I’m not interesting???
lol, jk. Although, I’m kind of worried one day I’ll run out of steam too…
NCN, Yeah, I see the typical trend…blogging in general seems to be a fad right now…I do realize that not everyone can read everything…actually all too well…it’s really hard, or impossible to read all the pf blogs out there…I know I can’t keep up…like ETF mentions…there’s just WAY too much stuff. I think if there’s one thing I wish is that people would do is participate more…any comment, good or bad, is appreciated. How to get that to happen…that’s the hard part…hmmm…
I think that the number of financial blogs is good for blogging. It can be frustrating for people who get a good portion of their traffic from pfblogs.org. The number of blogs limits traffic from this site. However it also forces authors to find new ways to attract an audience. It forces people to do different things in order to stand out.
John M, True. It does challenge bloggers to be more creative. I def think you can’t depend on pfblogs.org for traffic…there’s def too much content flowing through there…
I got to know about pfblogs a couple of months back and was pretty surprised to see the no. of finance bloggers talking about each other on their blogs. The number seems to be on the rise each day. The best thing about the blogs is the quality of the information that is served. AMAZING!! (well, in most cases
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Blogging communities is the order of the day these days.
I am hoping you guys have inspired me enough to start my own pf blog soon.
Cheers to the finance bloggers across the world.
God bless