Patrick's Blog
Thu, 22 Mar 2007
I must admit, when my friend Nicola first told me about Blogs a couple of years ago, I didn't think that this form of communication would gain any major recognition beyond a bunch of computer geeks who spend most of their time reading Slashdot and, well, blogging about what computer geeks blog about.
But, obviously, I have changed my mind now. I was impressed by how
major traditional news media report about blogs, cite from them and
even
introduce
their own
blogs. I was suprised when
John Batelle at a recent
talk
at Google New York said that his
Blog alone had about 20% as
many readers each month as Wired
Magazine, at what is probably a tiny fraction of the cost. I'm
happy to see that blogs seem to become a significant pain in the
nuisance for totalitarian regimes, and will
hopefully help paving the way to more democracy and justice in the
world. I'm glad that doing research online is constantly becoming easier
and more effective, and that I frequently find answers to my questions on
blogs. And finally, I'm (kind of) in the media business, and I'm not
yet old enough to just miss major trends like that.
All together, I think it's time for me to give it a shot and see what happens. So, here it goes. :-)
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