20,000 new blogs are created daily, according to Gannett News Service. By the end of the year the blog trackers expect that there will be some 10 million US blogs.
The classic question is, "If everyone's busy posting, then who's reading?" The Pew Internet & Family Life Project - is that an oxymoron? - estimates that some 32 million Americans read blogs, "a 58% jump in 2004."
Warning: Your Blog Could Get You Fired is a Times story from the wire about people getting into inadvertent trouble with their personal blogs vis-a-vis their employers. Sadly enough, I know of 3 local brouhahas of that type in the past 6 months.
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I don't blog. I ride the comment elevators up and down other people's blogs. The blogs I frequent on a daily basis (mosty poetry and art):
Robert Trudeau and the other active blogs at the online NWLA art gallery
Harvey Bialy's bialystocker.net. Not a blog but a bllog (after Jack Spicer). extreme Art, by all measures a beneficial to humans cosmogenic event
Ron Silliman's blog at ronsilliman.blogspot.com/ (I can't tell if it's all about poetry or all about Ron. But he does play fair.)
Sharp Sand by Joseph Duemer - a well-know poet and translator recently turned painter
This is what happens to a young artist's blog once they start to become famous (e.g., Brian Stefans at Free Space Comix http://www.arras.net/fscII/
Something very classy from Canada
http://www.ncf.ca/~ek867/wood_s_lot.html
And of course my favorite political meta-rant blog (Alternet)
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/
Then I shower and go to work.
I check email. Then go to my yahoo page and check drudgereport.com, Robert Trudeau and The Times (always in that order).
I now have a blog at myspace.com/houseousher.
My daughter says I don't blog. The stuff I'm putting out there is pretty polished. I guess I'm using my blog space as a publication place.
When I look through blogs I'm looking for what is the essence of life in the South, in Shreveport-Bossier. I'm tired of reading newspaper columns that are cutesy or funny or preachy.
I want something more like how the the light is in our sky at certain times of the year. Does that make sense? I want to read and write about our experiences here. I'd like to see something being done here along the lines of a book like SAINT CROIX NOTES by Noah Adams.
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