Weblogs: Everyone’s Doing It February 20, 2006
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On February 6th, technorati posted its newest results on the current state of the blogosphere. Then on the 14th, the second part of their findings was published on their site.
The results are shocking. The illustration shows that since March of 2003, the number of blogs on the Internet have doubled four times. I know personally that this cant be too far fetched because in the past two years, I have created five different weblogs. Along with this one, I regularly post on one other, so it shows that it is so easy to create, and forget about, blogs in minutes.
According to technorati, there are 50,000 blog updates every hour and 1.2 million posts a day. The rate currently holds that a new blog is created each second and the current blogosphere is sixty times larger than it was three years ago. Weblogs are even starting to edge out mainstream media sites when they look for their news.
You can see the usual suspects when it comes to the latest news on top. The New York Times, CNN, and The Washington Post top the list, but when you look a little further down, you’ll see that there is a change in tide. Popular blogs like Boing Boing and Engadget are showing up on the list and their counterparts are only going to show up more.
For a more detailed summary, check out “State of the Blogosphere” part one and part two on technorati.
Warming in the Cold February 20, 2006
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With the special on last night’s 60 Minutes and articles popping up all over the web, global warming seems to be an issue that is resurfacing fast. Recent statistics have shown that the glaciers in Greenland are melting almost twice as fast as predicted. The myth that global warming will take a very long time to make a dramatic effect is melting away. There are predictions that the sea may rise two feet by the end of this century. A mere two feet would be enough to flood the low-lands of any country out there.
Even if all of the cars, factories, and any other greenhouse gas emitting machines were stopped today and never turned back on, the current warming trend would continue until the end of the century. Which would be too late anyway , because the seas would have risen so fast. In the State of the Union Address a few weeks ago, the president came across the subject of new forms of energy to run our cars. He mainly focused on the subject so we wont be as reliant on the Middle East (whether he actually means it or not) for oil, but the warming must be stopped in the process.
It almost seems ironic to be talking about global warming when we are just being let out of the deep colds and heavy snow that is setting records around the world. Las Vegas, which hardly sees cold, got a little bit of snow over during the grips of this cold. Russia, the country that is most used to the cold, has been seeing Ice Age temperatures that has claimed many lives. But even with all of this cold, it is safe to say that spring is on the way.
Crowning of a Blog February 20, 2006
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With all of the blogs currently filling up the internet, it is hard to imagine that one could have a great impact on anything. As it turns out, some do, and the other 99% are not really noticed. So when one starts something like this, they must hope for the best.
Now that my theoretical side has had its fill, i just would like to say that this is my blog focusing outward. I have another that follows my life day-to-day, but it hardly feels like enough when the day ends. Instead of having my other one double as hosting my opinions of the outside world, I felt that making a fresh one would be ideal. So I for these first few seconds, welcome to the newest weblog online.
