From my Newsweek magazine: On blogs
THE DEBUNKER
Ever since Weblogs became known as blogs, there's been a steady drumbeat that the so-called pajamas mediawould soon make reporters and the MSM obsolete. A new survey from the Pew Internet Project dispels that notion.
WHO READS IT: Turns out that most of the 12 million American bloggers write for themselves, and their biggest readers are Mom and Dad.
NOT SO JOURNALISTIC: Nearly 40 percent of bloggers describe their journals as personal diaries; 65 percent don't consider their musings journalism at all; 78 percent are mostly inspired by personal experience.
ALMOST PRO: Eighty-four percent say blogging is a hobby. And the top 100 bloggers--those who get the most traffic--are almost all professional writers or journalists already.
From Slate.com
This is Democracy.
Gotta find something new to talk about. I don't talk crap.
Ever since Weblogs became known as blogs, there's been a steady drumbeat that the so-called pajamas mediawould soon make reporters and the MSM obsolete. A new survey from the Pew Internet Project dispels that notion.
WHO READS IT: Turns out that most of the 12 million American bloggers write for themselves, and their biggest readers are Mom and Dad.
NOT SO JOURNALISTIC: Nearly 40 percent of bloggers describe their journals as personal diaries; 65 percent don't consider their musings journalism at all; 78 percent are mostly inspired by personal experience.
ALMOST PRO: Eighty-four percent say blogging is a hobby. And the top 100 bloggers--those who get the most traffic--are almost all professional writers or journalists already.
From Slate.com
This is Democracy.
Gotta find something new to talk about. I don't talk crap.
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