About 70,000 web logs are created each day.
That’s more than one new blog per second. In fact, the last time you went to the bathroom, at least one hundred fresh blogs merged onto the Information Superhighway. Try Googling “blog” and “poopies,” you’ll get results. If the 2005 US birth rate is 14.1 per thousand per year, or 11,612.9032 per day, then that means there are nearly seven blogs for every newborn born.
Interesting paragraph on blogs from Encyclopedia Britannica:
“Even before the election, bloggers played a central role in demoting Mississippi Senator Trent Lott from his leadership position in the U.S. Senate. The mainstream media initially paid little attention to Lott's comments praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 Dixiecrat presidential campaign when the latter ran as an ardent segregationist. Only after left-wing bloggers made it clear that Lott had a history of such comments did the mainstream media begin a series of stories that eventually forced Lott to step down as Senate majority leader. In Britain, bloggers forced Prime Minister Tony Blair to address the substance of the so-called Downing Street memo, which purportedly showed that the Bush administration had deliberately “juiced up” military intelligence to support war against Iraq. Criticism of the mainstream media has come not only from the left. Dan Rather, a news anchor for CBS TV, was no doubt ushered into retirement in part because of right-wing bloggers' criticism of his journalistic practices during the 2004 election—a view summed up in the name of a central site: RatherBiased.com.”
Do you have a favorite blog besides your own? Email me and I’ll link to it here.
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