The power of blogging

I find the power of web-blogging mindbogglingly...no pun intended. When you think back to the inception of the Internet...to communication and now this electronic format of putting down one's thoughts and having it zip through electronic space and into someones computer is just phenomenal. We can see almost in real time what is going on in Iraq with the blogs coming from military personnel stationed overseas. The world has significantly shrunk due to the Internet and even more so now with our thoughts and ideas now invading someones living space.

Even Forbes has take notice:.........thanks to sites like Google’s Blogger, which allows people to easily create blogs in a matter of minutes, these homespun Internet outposts are rapidly expanding and evolving. At this writing, there are some 14 million blogs, growing at a rate of 12,000 a day. Cumulatively, bloggers post content about 275,000 times per day on nearly every topic or niche imaginable. One study claims that more than 50 million people regularly read blogs.

Blogging--------what a phenomenal resource!!!!!!!!!!!


According to Kate Craigwood, she blogs as [the] modern day soap operas; giving people a chance to peer into others' lives on the one hand, while allowing the writer to fulfil that deep-seated desire to share personal details with the world on the other. The range of subjects is quite staggering (here are some of the terms associated with blogging. Some simply write about their day-to-day trials and tribulations (a lot of blogs are really rather depressing), while more focused examples include details of the writer's sexual adventures, or the dreaded catbloggers - people writing about their cat, often pictured in amusing poses (why?!). (my bad...guilty of this) I would like to be able to disdainfully sniff at this apparent mass waste of time, but I'm just as guilty and have at times been drawn into some of the online communities that grow up and have ultimately met some good friends through them. That is, perhaps, the ultimate drive behind personal / social blogging – a modern-day means of connecting with like-minded others and making new friends.

Websites:

http://kate-craigwood.livejournal.com/3076.html

http://www.forbes.com/2005/07/25/bow050725011.html