Internet in Review

Ths is a good quick read for Internet users.

2004: YEAR OF THE BLOG Although the term "weblog" was coined in 1997, 2004 is the year the blog achieves critical mass. Salam Pax, the "Baghdad blogger", becomes popular during the Iraq war, while in the US, Fox news anchor Dan Rather resigns after bloggers discredit one of his stories. AOL begins to include blogging tools in the latest versions of its software, while Microsoft launches its MSN Spaces blogging service. Today there are an estimated 14.7 million blogs, with a new one created every 7.4 seconds.

2005: ONLINE NEWS Citizen journalists are now appearing daily, not just on the big news sites. Nowpublic.com and Scoopt.com offer people the chance to be photojournalists, while podcasting (a grassroots internet radio movement akin to audio blogging) is hugely popular after just one year. A report by the Carnegie Corporation shows that 18- to 34-year-olds in the US are twice as likely to use an internet portal as a printed newspaper for daily news.

The changing world of information ... developing.

Comments

[(CindyLouWho)]

God...thanks Dan you just made me feel ancient!
I had no idea blogging was sooooo huge.
I grew up in the day of no remotes, no cell phones, no cable, no corded phones, I could go on but I need to go color my gray hair! LOL

Thanks for the history lesson!!

[(CindyLouWho)]

ooops corded phones!

[fried]

so true, it is so much easier to get a less jaded view of the news online. i have found that scanning several news sources takes less time, and shows a much clearer
picture of almost any event than reading the local paper over lunch. TV news is relagated to late-breaking news or scoops, (that may explain some of the recent attention to specific stories). the ability to read an english version of pravda, to look at what the BBC or any local news source has to say on any given issue has changed the way a large majority of the people, not only here but in some of the most remote parts of the world look at things.
sites like this one are on the leading edge, allowing normal people to interact and have their voices heard. i am so glad my wife made me buy a computer years ago, she also had to force me to buy a vcr. what a fool i am.

[fried]

maybe oneday i will learn to type.

[faithfulreader]

I could not imagine myself going a day without reading a blog now, especially yours Dan.

[Isanah]

Fried, I hate to tell you but it's time to buy a dvd player. VCR's are going to become extinct! I fought that change but I'll tell you storing VCR tapes is space consuming. Kind of like the storing those 8 tracks were. To tell you how old I am our first VCR cost $500.00! Yikes! LOL

[TheAlamo]

That is outstanding news. Maybe for awhile we can avoid the lies, and misinformation put out by the MSN. Of course....if too much truth gets out over the internet----look for more legislation to "protect us." The powers that be just cannot stand good competition--especially when truth comes out--and shows them for what they are--(I'll let you add your own adjective!)

[dc]

Congratulations. Again, as I stated before, this is one of the first web sites that I go to several times a day to get updates. I am following this story very closely, and you are doing an outstanding job of reporting it, fairly. Good for you. May God bless every endeavor that you attempt to do, and bless your efforts as a writer, journalist and reporter. Way to go.

[genek Ramos]

Blogs are stupid.
A bunch of morons spouting emotional, self-endulgent dribble.
Yeah,see ya.

[Susie]

So stupid that even you stopped by to tap a few words of even more stupidity. Thanks for your share. Coulda gone a real long time without it but, you too, have the right. I find the intelligence of the writer refreshing and the forums for debate truely competative.