First it was the Geeks, then the Extroverts, now it's Mainstream
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
I found this article very intriguing since this was a question allot of people in our company spent an immense amount of time trying to answer. What are the applications of a blog, and who is a blogger?
Back when this had a big push, it was about a year ago and we were at what the Blog Herald calls 2G, or the Extrovert stage. At that time my conclusion was that there is no specific vertical application for blogs, but more so that blogs were a flexible communication tool that were used by… well, extroverts. Specifically I didn't use that term but I described it as “people who want to be heard or have something to say”.
Since then the blogosphere has matured, and what they call 3G… mainstream has arrived.
“Most new bloggers blog because they can, because others are, and because to many people (perhaps more so amongst younger people, and in particular amongst teens) having a blog is now regarded as a normal behaviour, just like having an email address and mobile phone are normal as well.”
I couldn't agree more.
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