July 29, 2010

My So-Called Blog by Emily Nussbaum

According to figures released last October by Perseus Development Corporation, a company that designs software for online surveys, there are expected to be 10 million blogs by the end of 2004. In the news media, the blog explosion has been portrayed as a transformation of the industry, a thousand minipundits blooming. But the vast majority of bloggers are teens and young adults. Ninety percent of those with blogs are between 13 and 29 years old; a full 51 percent are between 13 and 19, according to Perseus.

NY Times Magazine

Posted by: Paul Spector - January 11, 2004, 6:19 pm

Freewheeling 'bloggers' are rewriting rules of journalism

They call themselves bloggers. Their mission: to remake political journalism and, quite possibly, democracy itself. The plan: to run an end around big media by becoming publishers on the Internet. Many bloggers are not professional journalists. Few have editors. Most make no pretense of objectivity. Yet they're forcing the mainstream news media to follow the stories they're pushing. And they've created a trend that almost every major presidential candidate is following.

USA Today

Posted by: Paul Spector - December 31, 2003, 1:13 pm

The revolution should not be eulogised

It is becoming obvious that no one really understands weblogs. Lots of people know what they are; the number of these reverse-chronological collections of entries has grown exponentially since 1999, when the first automated blogging tools were released. These tools brought online publishing, once the province of the technophile, to the common web-surfer, and in 2003 they are functioning as desktop printing presses for an estimated 1.5 million people. .

Guardian Unlimited

Posted by: Paul Spector - December 18, 2003, 10:29 am

Public schools: Why Johnny can't blog

Technology companies and educational institutions are increasingly developing partnerships that involve everything from company-sponsored labs to multimillion-dollar equipment donations. These arrangements are now accepted openly by many teachers and administrators desperate for resources. And the trend is likely to continue as companies receive tax breaks, marketing exposure and lucrative contracts stemming from these relationships.

CNET News.com

Posted by: Paul Spector - November 12, 2003, 10:32 pm

The budding blogs of business

There are more than four million web logs on the Internet, and as the number grows executive bloggers are joining in. While some talk about business and networking, others are speaking out against their bosses, their company or profession. Welcome to the party!

CNN

Posted by: Paul Spector - November 12, 2003, 10:27 pm

What's Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism?

An outstanding ten-point distillation on just what makes weblogging radical as written by Jay Rosen - Professor of Journalism NYU, BloggerConner, and Lydon interviewee.

Press Think by Jay Rosen

Posted by: Paul Spector - October 20, 2003, 11:40 am

The Blogging Iceberg

Perseus Development Corp. randomly surveyed 3,634 blogs on eight leading blog-hosting services to develop a model of blog populations. Based on this research, Perseus estimates that 4.12 million blogs have been created on these services. The most dramatic finding was that 66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months, representing 2.72 million blogs that have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned.

perseus.com

Posted by: Paul Spector - October 12, 2003, 11:17 pm

Blogs offer peeks inside small firms

....Originally, blogs were logs of Internet links to, and commentary on, interesting stories. But now there are millions of them and they are growing well beyond that mix of soap-boxers, diarists and techies. Small firms, including Novidian, use blogs much as they used company Web sites, newsletters and e-mail in the past: as a way to reach existing and potential customers.

Boston Herald.com

Posted by: Paul Spector - September 16, 2003, 10:34 pm

It's Time to Blog Hard News on Your Site

It's time for increasing the speed of news sites -- to that of television news -- and Weblogs are the way to do it. And it's time to stop thinking of blogs mostly in the realm of feature and opinion content, and move the concept into breaking news.

Editor & Publisher

Posted by: Paul Spector - September 11, 2003, 11:36 am

Welcome to Open Source Politics

Loosely quoting from their to-the-point Mission Statement -
Open Source Politics was founded to promote active discourse among progressives. We firmly believe that the strength of every democratic nation comes from government of, by, and for its people. The ongoing renewal necessary for the health of democracy is not achieved by the election of politicians, but in discussion and debate among citizens, in the triumph of reason and research over ideology, and, most importantly, in your participation.

Open Source web site

Posted by: Paul Spector - September 2, 2003, 7:40 pm