The Disagreement about Blogs There are two point two new Blog sites created for every second of every day of the year. (around 175,000 per day.) The blogosphere doubles every 236 days! Presently, there are around 77 million blogs,It has been predicted that within three years, 50% of all content online will be user-generated. [...]
“There's a new distribution platform that's going to be ubiquitous, and that's clearly broadband,” Eisner says. While sites that feature user-generated video, such as YouTube, “won the short-term sprint” to reach audiences, he says, “Winning the marathon will be professionally produced, emotionally driven story content.” In the past few years, the development of exciting and [...]
Panasonic had a new camera product; the HVX200. Marketing thought a blog would be a great idea to help sell it. It should have been. It wasn't. Someone at Panasonic decided to make it a “character” blog; “Tosh” would “write” it. Within days, bloggers all over the net were weighing in to criticize the execution of [...]
Blog networks became big business this week. It was a seismic shift in media. Weblogs Inc was sold with AOL paying 25 mill or 294 K for each blog. VeriSign bought Weblogs and its ping service. Gawker announced they're distributing a blog from their network in Europe with a partner. Instablogs launched with 46 blogs. Blog Herald, [...]
The fourth and most important profound phase of blogging is just getting underway. Not to be missed its the commercial and business process blogging. Blogging's three phases, says The Blog Herald are the geek, the extrovert, and the 3G. 3G, todays they announce is the broad-base consumer blogging phase. As a result, they think geek bloggers are in decline. But that's [...]