Another vote for year of the blog
The year of the blog. Arthur Chrenkoff writes:
Blogs are obviously playing an increasingly important role as disseminators of information and commentary; one day they might become an essential fixture of the news universe - but we’re not there yet. As a source of news, blogs are quite clearly still dwarfed by the mainstream media outlets: newspapers, magazines, radio, TV, web sites. Instapundit is getting some 150,000 visits a day, a major newspaper shifts a million copies and Rush Limbaugh is listened to by several million people around the US. Blogs, of course, reach a much more targeted and arguably more news savvy audience, a self-selecting information junky elite. Still, the reach is often as important as impact, and, clearly, blogs still have a long way to go before they graduate from a niche to mainstream mass-media status. Read more…
Hey! I was going to write this post, too. (See my byline above for an explanation.)
I will keep plugging my post 2004: The Year of the Blogger until I receive national attention (or until I get tired of trying).
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