Bloggers

The bloggers are coming faster and faster and they are taking over the Web, to hear some people talk about it.

Not quite, but as a headline in the New York Times blared the other day, “Is Weblog technology here to stay or just another fad? No fad this phenomenon. I think it’s here to stay.

Cousins to regularly updated home pages on free sites such as GeoCities, or updated diaries such as this one, Weblogs employ a type of technology that makes it simple for people to have a Web page they can update simply with just a few lines or links and a click of a button. Blogs may look like online diaries, the author of the article expalins, but they are different. They are personal homepages, diaries, links pages, graphics showplaces, idiosyncratic to the extreme. Fun. Learning experiences. There are an estimated 500,000 of them. Try going to weblogs.com to see for yourself what the buzz is all about. It’s amazing. It’s startling. It’s fascinating. There seems to be no end to the possibilities of what you’ll find.

Another example of the richness and variety of self-expression, self-promotion, and self-publishing, and self-aggrandizement which the Web makes possible.