The year of the blog?


	The year of the blog?

bara11green

12-29-2006 5:55 PM

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<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:#00cc33;"><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/f0d52cb9-1317-4707-8813-11689781fdcc/307674DB-63C6-49C3-A757-0EF904E32BC8/" 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://asap.ap.org/stories/1114567.s" href="http://asap.ap.org/stories/1114567.s" style="font-size: 11px;">asap.ap.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://asap.ap.org/stories/1114567.s"><DIV class="articleHeader">The year of the blog?</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://asap.ap.org/stories/1114567.s"><DIV class="articleSubHeader">There's no doubt that 2006 was the year the blog blew up. OTIS HART tries to figure out why.</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://asap.ap.org/stories/1114567.s"><P>As Time magazine hammered home this month, <A href="http://tinyurl.com/yf54ud">you</A> had an incredible year.</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://asap.ap.org/stories/1114567.s"><P>Blogs and other citizenry-generated media dominated discourse in 2006, and mainstream media had no choice but to clear a spot at the grown-up's table. Twentysomethings in their PJs attracted as much -- if not more -- attention than some cable news channels, while YouTube cost businesses millions of dollars in distraction and procrastination.</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://asap.ap.org/stories/1114567.s"><P>But to limit discussion of the topic to ephemeral entertainment would be a grave disservice (just ask the geniuses behind "Snakes on a Plane" how valuable that is). Bloggers transcended their medium in substantial ways that had real effects on society at large.</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://asap.ap.org/stories/1114567.s"><P>Here's a look back at how blahgs became blogs in 2006.</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/307674DB-63C6-49C3-A757-0EF904E32BC8/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>