Monday, May 12, 2008

New Communication Technology Essay

Blogging has become a not-so-new internet fad, but what does blogging's future hold? What are the new directions blogs are taking in 2008. (Online business: A new direction for blogging?)

Blogging for dollars

By Jim McClellan
February 12 2003
Livewire

theage.com.au

-"Weblogs are one of the few things online still capable of generating media buzz and bucks. The libertarian blogger Glenn Reynolds turned himself into a marketable political pundit via his hugely popular blog (instapundit.com) and now appears on the news cable channel MSNBC. United States-based right-wing British blogger Andrew Sullivan (andrewsullivan.com) recently netted about $US79,000 ($133,000) in donations from his readers during a "pledge week" in which he appealed for funds to keep his site running." <MORE EXAMPLES>

Living With Cyberspace- technology and society in the 21st century

By John Armitage and Joanne Roberts

2002

(HM851.L58)

Chapter 10 pg 135

Towards the cybereconomy, making a business out of cyberspace


 

Culture in the communication age

Edited by James Lull

2001

(HM61.C86)

Chapter 11

Computers, the internet and virtual cultures- Steve Jones and Stephanie Kucker


 

Blogging for Business- Everything you need to know and why you should care

Shel Holts and Ted Demopoulos

2006

(TK5105.888.4.H65)

Forward

Dan Janal

Http://www.prleads.com

Introduction

-"Blogs are not a fad. Consider the statistics. As of late October 2005, blog search engine Technorati was tracking over 20 million blog. In his quarterly "state of the blogosphere" post, Technorati founder and CEO Dave Sirfry noted that 70000 blogs were created every day."(pg xii)


 

Business Week

Blogs Will Change Your Business

Stephen Baker and Heather Green

May 2 2005

Online version with 2008 annotations http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/feb2008/db20080219_908252.htm


 

-the who's who of blogging http://2008.bloggies.com/

-new blog search/comparison tool http://www.trendpedia.com/

-article about that at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/track_blog_trends_with_trendpedia.php

-the long tail http://www.thelongtail.com

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