<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1bc16c7e-78f5-4e29-929c-12c39f78e2c8/1611F003-CCD9-4F32-B3DC-09C0E346F149/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php" href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readwriteweb.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php"><P>Before looking at different use cases lets take a look at some trends and charts. According to Google Trends, <EM>blog</EM> as a trend has been slowing down, while <EM>blogging</EM> never really had much velocity.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readwriteweb.com/img/2B0F20A4-1F96-4DC9-8A2D-73867FD0AB61" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php"><P>On the other hand, if we compare <EM>blog</EM> to <EM>newspaper</EM> we clearly see that blog is on the rise and that newspaper is on the decline.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readwriteweb.com/img/85082839-AE7B-431D-90FF-9704673B7F7D" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php"><P>According to <A href="http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000432.html" linkindex="25">David Sifry's post<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.2/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> in April of this year, the blogosphere is experiencing exponential growth. The chart below indicates that Technorati alone indexed almost 35 million blogs in just 3 years - really quite a mind boggling number. The blogosphere has been doubling in that time about every 6 months, which means that if the trend held, there should be over 70 million blogs now.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.readwriteweb.com/img/3D66DCE3-B40C-49B9-8118-677DC8D1D884" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blogging_digestion_phase.php"><P>Like everything else, blogging requires motivation. What is the driving force behind the blogosphere? Lets take a look at different blogging groups and understand why people invest time into blogging.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1611F003-CCD9-4F32-B3DC-09C0E346F149/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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