BLOGS

“Weblog” = 1997
“Blog” = 1999

• Websites that contain a series of articles in chronological order
  
• = Niche Media
  

• Identity Blogs (diaries)
• News & Comment Blogs
• Travel Blogs
• Collaborative Blogs (many contributors)
• “Moblog” = Mobile phone photo blogging
  

“Blogosphere” (Technorati.com)

• 27.2 million active blogs (Feb 2006)
• 1.2 million posts a day - 50,000 an hour
• 40.7 million blog sites (May 200)
  

Doubles every 5 months

• 70,000 new blogs each day
  
• BUT - Most are Splogs -- Spam Blogs
• steal content from others to attract users to click on ads (Google Adsense)