Why are blogs important?

04Dec06

They allow millions of people to easily publish their ideas, and millions more to comment on them.

Blogs are a fluid, dynamic medium, more akin to a “conversation” than to a library — which is how the Web has often been described in the past. Instead of primarily being passive consumers of information, more and more Internet users are becoming active participants.

Weblogs allow everyone to have a voice.

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1 Clare on December 7, 2006 said:

Comments from workshop:
Blogging is also about forming relationships with people – the people who read and comment. It is about building communities and often acting as a social reporter or facilitator.

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2 Clare on December 7, 2006 said:

Blogging offers an easy, free way to get content out quickly – it is a good tool to power news sections.

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