1 million bloggers
In a great talkback interview segment on Radio National this evening Sandy McCutcheon mentioned that the emergent blogger global community has grown from a handful of people pre-September 11 to now number around 1 million (and growing exponentially currently at 15,000 new blogs per day). The question raised was “Will blogs become the ‘coffee shops’ of the virtual world, providing a place to discuss and interpret truth within the mainstream media?”.
What blogging develops into will be very interesting. Following some general principles of the internet around ‘personal freedom of voice’ and ‘information discernment’ ~ expression with uniqueness may be one aspiration for the relevance of blogs such as ‘insights’.
Some of the political topical bloggers mentioned with crossovers into mainstream media were:
Tim Dunlop - Road to Surfdom
Ken Parish - Troppo Armadillo
John Quiggin - Crooked Timber
July 15th, 2004 at 10:41 am
Hi Will,
Interesting program.
That “1 million bloggers” estimate is a bit low. Technorati.com has a count of blogs that they index and as of today the number is 3,107,058. That’s a lot of people, a lot of opinions and a lot of words.