<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/851166ee-447d-496b-96ea-35f9aea6ddad/C0EFA736-F0B7-4BED-B19B-71F876A5DE86/" 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://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/" href="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/" style="font-size: 11px;">gigaom.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/"><H1>The Evolution of Blogging</H1></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://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/"><P class="meta"> <SPAN class="author-pic author-om"> By <A title="Posts by Om Malik" href="http://gigaom.com/author/om/">Om Malik</A> </SPAN> <SPAN class="less">|</SPAN> Thursday, August 13, 2009 <SPAN class="less">|</SPAN> 9:00 PM PT <SPAN class="less">|</SPAN> <A href="http://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/#comments" class="comments" rel="nofollow"><STRONG>48</STRONG> comments</A> </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://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/gigaom.com/img/8C6E015C-F241-46B6-807A-3B25C707C9C2" alt="istock_000006184805xsmall" /></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://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/"> Because the nature of <A href="http://gigaom.com/2009/05/17/how-internet-content-distribution-discovery-are-changing/">content sharing (call it publishing) and content consumption is changing</A>.</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://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/">Today most of us walk around with newfangled smartphones that are nothing short of multitasking computers, essentially content creation points. And they’re networked, which means creating and sharing content is becoming absurdly simple to do.</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://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/"><P>What Facebook and FriendFeed have shown is that people want to consume and publish content in a more dynamic fashion — more in real time, so to speak.</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://gigaom.com/2009/08/13/the-evolution-of-blogging/">blogging platforms need to evolve from the hierarchical content-management systems of today to more fluid, free-flowing, more socially relevant and real-time lifestreaming systems.</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/C0EFA736-F0B7-4BED-B19B-71F876A5DE86/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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