people of the year: bloggers

Written by jlgaddis on January 1, 2005 – 6:02 pm -

ABCNews

A blog – short for “web log” – is an online personal journal that covers topics ranging from daily life to technology to culture to the arts. Blogs have made such an impact this year that Merriam-Webster named it the word of the year.

“There’s a blog for every niche. There’s a blog for every interest,” said technology writer Xeni Jardin, who co-edits the blog boingboing.net.

Dylan Verdi, an 11-year-old known as the world’s youngest videoblogger, says she covers “things that I’ve seen that I like or that I’ve heard of, or just anything that happened to me that day that I’m thinking.”

There are millions of blogs on the Internet — a new one is created every seven-and-a-half seconds. More than 10,000 new additions are added to the “blogosphere” each day.

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