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    Now, as longtime blogger Tim Bray notes, 7.4 million and 1.5 million are still sizable numbers, but they’re a whole lot lower than we’ve been led to believe. "I find those numbers shockingly low" writes Bray; “clearly, blogging isn’t as widespread as we thought.” Call it the Long Curtail: For the lion’s share of bloggers, the rewards just aren’t worth the effort. Full Article at Britannica Blog
    I find those numbers shockingly low
    – Tim Bray SOURCE: Britannica Blog 12 months ago
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Blogging, R.I.P.?
  1. The nerves of the whole world are, so to speak, being bound together, so that a touch in one country is transmitted instantly to a far-distant one.
    SOURCE: Britannica Blog 12 months ago
  2. Scroll down Technorati’s list of the top 100 blogs and you’ll find personal sites have been shoved aside by professional ones
    SOURCE: Britannica Blog 12 months ago
  3. Blog front pages are now large pages of images and scripts rather than the pared-down text pages of old
    SOURCE: Britannica Blog 12 months ago
  4. In the 1920s there was little mention of world peace or of anyone’s ability to track down a long-lost friend or relative halfway around the world. In fact, there were not many thousands of message senders, only a few … Thus, through radio, Americans would not transcend the present or circumvent corporat...
    SOURCE: Britannica Blog 12 months ago
  5. On every night after dinner
    SOURCE: Britannica Blog 12 months ago
  6. Blogging has entered the mainstream, which - as with every new medium in history - looks to its pioneers suspiciously like death.
    SOURCE: Britannica Blog 12 months ago
  7. clearly, blogging isn’t as widespread as we thought.
    SOURCE: Britannica Blog 12 months ago

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