When blogging first took off in the mid 1990s the mainstream media viewed bloggers with lofty contempt. I can remember both the BBC and the Guardian making sneering 'get a life' comments about bloggers daring to report their own version of news. Now, there isn't a newspaper or broadcast organisation which doesn't boast its own bloggers and doesn't welcome the contribution of user-generated content. At the same time, some individual blogs have become phenomenally successful. Arianne Huffington's The Huffington Post became an instant hit as an Internet newspaper, and one-man-band UK political blogger Paul Staines proudly displays his end-of-month site visitor statistics which outstrip those of national newspapers. This sort of popularity has attracted advertising revenue, and there are now individuals whose blogs are now a full time business... Read more >>
13 January 2010
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