Mar
1

So only almost every idiot with an internet connection does this




Posted at 14:13 by Sadly, No!

NEW YORK (AP) - Despite the potential of turning every Internet user into a publisher, relatively few have created Web journals called blogs and even fewer do so with regularly, a new study finds.

Some bloggers indeed update their journals often, in some cases several times a day. But it’s clearly a minority who are taking advantage of the blog and its potential to steer the online discourse with personal musings about news events and daily life. [AP]

Sadly, No! — Part of the minority steering the online discourse with personal musings about news events and daily life.

3 Comments »

  1. Doug Gillett said,

    March 1, 2004 at 14:39

    Shorter NYT: “Oh, you bloggers, with your little Web pages and your little opinions about stuff. Bless your hearts*.”

    * Of course, anyone born south of the Mason-Dixon Line knows “Bless your heart” is just a polite way of saying “You poor, dumb bastard.”

  2. Charles2 said,

    March 1, 2004 at 16:56

    They’ll start taking us seriously when high-powered journalists, famous people and politicians start blogs to tap into the same… oh… yeah, that’s right…

    Never mind.

  3. Peanut said,

    March 1, 2004 at 19:08

    But it’s clearly a minority who are taking advantage of the blog and its potential to steer the online discourse with personal musings about news events and daily life.

    Zombie in *Day of the Dead*: Send more brains!

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