Have a personal story to tell? Become a Blogger
Posted 18/02/2003 under
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“Why do people want to read intimate, and often mundane, details about other people’s lives?” is the question posed by journalist with the Naples Daily News, Karen Mann. Anecdotally, this report differs from many others attempting to explain the weblogging phenomenon, however there is no conclusion reached and simliar questions are asked.
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By KAREN MANN, Raleigh News & Observer
What’s a blog? Not a new horror movie creature, something that chases Harry Potter, or low-fat diet fad. BLOG is short for “Weblog,” the latest thing in online communications.
When Cleveland native Emil Thomas Chuck, 30, accepted a position at Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C., in 2001, he found that keeping up with friends and family back home ? repeating the same stories to different people ? was a bit of a hassle.
So he became a blogger ? he started an online diary.