Blah, Blah, Blah and Blog
For blogging, that happened Wednesday—and NPR’s three-minute piece on how weblogging is transforming journalism was just one more sign that blogging has outgrown its underground trendiness.
Time magazine, The Times of London and several other newspapers have recently reported on blogging, with many of the outlets proclaiming blogs the thing of the future.
The practice of blogging is hardly new. Well before the dot-com swoon, blogging began to boom. Hundreds and then thousands of people set up their own weblogs, with some of the sites garnering traffic numbers that beat those dot-coms.